e. Jr. WATFPr* 7 '* 7 * 03. A HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF FORTESCUE Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014 https://archive.org/details/historyoffamilyoOOcler THK FAMOUS AND PJCHT HONOURABLE £>' I l\ 4 0 H N FO r(T E S CUE K N ! G H T, LORD CHANCELLOR, OF ENGLAND TO KING HENRY THE 3 IXTH. c From Faith-ones -print of cav oricnnal portrait on wood , belonging to Sir John- Fortes cue Bar 1 'of Salden ,A.D.lfi(>%. A HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF FORTESCUE IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. BY THOMAS (FORTESCUE) LORD CLERMONT. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: ELLIS AND WHITE, 29, NEW BOND STREET. 1880. CH1SWICK PRESS :— C. WHITTINGIIAM AND CO. TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. HIS family hiftory is the refult of a defire felt by the Author, when collecting the Works, and examining the career of Chancellor Fortcfcue, to know fomething more than what the Peerages record of the links which conned him by defcent with that eminent perfon. He had at firft no intention to inquire into the hiftory of any branch of the Fortefcues, excepting that of which the Chancellor is a direct anceftor. In fearching, however, for materials to carry this fcheme into effect much was found which related to other branches of the houfe ; fcveral perfons of the name who occur in the Chronicles or HitWies of England proving to be lineal defcendants, not of the Chancellor, but of his brothers; while others were traced to forefathers who formed part of the common flock at an earlier period. The writer therefore having, as it were, drifted into this more general invefHga- tion, refolved to include in his account all that could be difcovered relating to any and every branch of the Fortefcuc family, not excluding thofe who remained in Normandy after the Conqueft: of England. His chief fource of information has been, in the nrft and principal place, the Preface to the Firfi Edition. Britim Mufeum, where a large part of the genealogical and biographical matter has been drawn from the Herald's Vifitations, from the " Inquifitiones port Mortem," and from collections of public and private letters. The Record Office, whofe ftores of State Papers are now accemble for reference through the printed Calendars, has alfo furnifhed many details of intereft, as have the Carte Papers in the Bodleian Library; while for actual genealogy bafed upon the records of birth, marriage, and death, the Pedigrees and extracts from Parifh Regifters in " Stemmata Fortefcuana" drawn up in the year 1795 by Mr. Benjamin Incledon, and now belonging to Earl Fortefcue who kindly placed the MS. volume at the Author's difpofal, have been largely ufed, together with the Wills at Doctors' Commons, and the Funeral Certificates at the College of Arms. In arranging the numerous items of this fubject, fpreading as it does over a fpace of eight centuries, the Author has, among the great mafs of what is dry or unimportant, met not unfrequently with incidents and details fufficient, when read by the light of contemporary hiftory, to bring out tangibly, to his own per- ception at leaft, fomething of the life and character of the perfon to whom they refer ; and he trufts that by putting thofe incidents on record, and thus fupplying to the dry bones of a fkeleton pedigree the flefh and fpirit of actors in fcenes, hiftorical or focial, of real life, he may fucceed in imparting to his " Coulins " near and diftant, — the only readers which a Work of this nature can be expected to attract, — fome of the intereft in the fubject which he has himfelf acquired. It has been his defire, by tracing the various branches of the Family to a common anceftor, who lived at the time when the hiftory of Anglo-Norman England may be faid to begin, to prefent it as an ideal whole, taking part through Preface to the Firfi Edition. one or more of its members, and to a greater or lefs extent, in the events of almoft every period of the hiftory of our country ; not, indeed, with any fuch prominence as to entitle it to a place among the powerful families of the land, but fufficiently to (lamp it as a fair example of a knightly and noble Houfe of England. The Author has received afliftance from many quarters, as well from members and connections of the Family as from others ; and his requefts for information on particular points have always been courtcoufly anfwered, fome- times at the coft, he fears, of confiderable trouble to thofe to whom he has applied. The names of thefe contributors need not be repeated here, as their fervices are acknowledged in the pages of this volume. He mud, however, record the valuable help received, for every part of this work, from Mr. Richard Sims, of the Britifh Mufeum, whofc intimate knowledge of the MSS. and genealogical works in the Library there has fupplied the Author with a great part of his materials. CLERMONT. 35, Hill Street, February bth, 1869. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. HE diftribution of a fmall edition of t His Family Hiftory, privately printed in 1869, has lhown that there are perfons beyond the range of family connexions who take an intereft in fuch genealogical narratives as the prefent. I am confe- quently encouraged to iiTue for publication a limited number of copies as a new edition of the work. A few additions have been made — the principal being a feries of letters from Sir John Fortcfcuc, of Salden, Queen Elizabeth's Miniftcr, to Sir Robert Cecil and other public men of the period, from the Hatfield collection, to which I lately obtained accefs through the obliging courtefy of the Marquis of Salifbuiy. A laft reading over of the beginning of the volume induces me to remind the reader that the fo-called early hiftory of this family, like that of many others, is really not hiftory at all, not being founded on documentary evidence, but tradition — deferving of credit fo far only as it is not contradicted by probability or hiftoric fadt. The " Domcfdav Hook " does not record, in any recognizable form, an anccftor of the Fortefcucs among the perfons who received grants of land from William the Conqueror. The reiidence, therefore, at Wimftone, b X Preface to the Second Edition. immediately after the Conqueft, of Adam Fortefcue, either as a tenant-in-chief or as an under-tenant, mull not be unrefervedly accepted. If the Fortefcues were there at all at that early time, it was probably in fome other capacity than that which either of thofe tenures would imply. I muft here renew my acknowledgments to Mr. Richard Sims for valuable affiftance in almoft every inquiry connected with this new edition; and in par- ticular for carefully editing the Norman Rent-roll now appended to the work. After the printing of this volume was finifhed, I was favoured by Mr. Knight Watfon, Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries, with a notice of a remarkable {ketch communicated to the Society on the 21ft of December, 1769, by the Honourable Daines Barrington, purporting to reprefent Chancellor Fortefcue in his robes of office, bearing a bag with the Great Seal ; and I delire to exprefs my obligation to that learned Body for allowing it to be lithographed for this work. The hat, and the manner of wearing the beard, — more in accordance with the fafhion of Elizabeth's reign than with that of Henry the Sixth, — feem to refer to the later period the execution of the Iketch ; the chief intention of which may have been to illuftrate a mode of carrying the Seal-bag. CLERMONT. 35, Hill Street, Augujl 19th, 1880. CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME. REFACE to Firft Edition . Preface to Second Edition Lift of Sheets of Pedigrees Lift of Illuftrations . Introduction Chapter I. The Fortefcues of Wimftonc II. The Fortefcues of Prcfton, and of the Second Line of Wood III. The Fortefcues of Spridleftonc ..... IV. The Fortefcues of Cookhill and Whcatley V. The Fortefcues of Fallapit, Second Line .... VI. The Fortefcues of Norrcis and Wood, and the Fortefcues of Fallapit VII. Chancellor Sir John Fortefcue ..... VIII. Chancellor Fortefcue's Declaration upon Certain Writings IX. The Fortefcues of Filh igh or Caftlehill .... X. The Fortefcues of Buckland-Filleigh .... XL The Fortefcues of Dromifkin and Ravcnfdale . XII. The Fortefcues of Punlborne and Falkborne . XIII. The Fortefcues of Salden XIV. The Fortefcues of Salden, continued XV. The Fortefcues of Salden, continued XVI. The Fortefcues of Normandy . Appendix ....... Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. General Index. Firft Line Page v ix xiii xv l 3 9 l i '5 27 44 50 106 126 148 169 234 2.15 312 417 448 483 SHEETS OF PEDIGREES IN THIS VOLUME. Pam Fam Fam Fam Fam Fam Fam Fam Fam Fam Fam AMILY of Wimrtone . Family of Prefton Family of Spridleftone Family of Cookhill and Whcatlcy Family of Fallapit, Second Line ly of Wells-Fortefcue of Fallapit ly of Wood, and of Fallapit, Firft Line ly of Caftlchill ...... ly of Ruckland-Fillcigh ly of Shebbear ..... ly of Inglett-Fortefcue of Ruckland-Fillcigh ly of Dromifkin and Kavenfdale . ly of Stcphenftown ..... ly of Whiterath ly of Punfbornc and Falkbornc . ly of Salden ...... To fa Page 3 9 1 1 15 27 42 44 126 148 150 .67 169 210 212 234 254 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN THIS VOLUME. ^^^^^^^J'hANCEI.LOR FORTESCUE, by Faithorne Fronti/piece. Xfj /jpl^pPS^^ Signatures of Sir Nicholas Fortefcue and others .... To face 17 (wl l-lv^v! ^^f^S^ Edmund Fortefcue ......... ., 30 ^StsA^^^^SKy Ebrington Manor Houfe .... „ 59 5vST~1<^(s ^^P'tfii^ Chancellor Fortefcue carrying the Seal-bag ..... „ 64 Signature of Chancellor Fortefcue ........... „ 73 Facfimile of MS. of " De Laudibus " „ 79 Ebrington Church .............. „ 84 Tomb of Chance llor Fortefcue ............ „ 91 Chancellor Fortefcue, from Bofworth Piclure ......... „ 94 Wear Giffard 1 26 Old Cattlehill Houfe 131 New Caftlehill Houfe 135 Second Earl Fortefcue ............. 1 38 Firfl Lord Fortefcue of Credan „ 14;, Facfimile of Letter by Alexander Pope „ 15b Buckland-Filleigh Houfe and Church . .......... „ 160 Right Honble. William Fortefcue ........... „ 166 Arthur, Firfl Lord Chichefler ,,174 Banner of Sir Faithful Fortefcue ........... „ 1 88 Facfimile of Letter of Sir Faithful Fortefcue ......... „ 194 Marchioneft of Lothian „ 205 Facfimile of Receipt by Sir Jofhua Reynolds ......... „ 207 Lord Carlingford ,,209 xvi Full-page Illujl rat ions in this Volume. Page Earl of Clermont To face , 2 1 1 The fame, on horfeback ............. ,,214 Countefs of Clermont ,,218 Ravenfdale Park Houfe . „ 222 Braffes in Falkborne Church ............ „ 250 Facfimile of Handwriting of Sir Adrian Fortefcue ........ „ 263 Sir Adrian Fortefcue ............. „ 273 Monument to Lady Fortefcue ............ ,,279 Sir John Fortefcue of Salden, engraved by Hunt . . . . . . . . „ 312 Salden Houfe ............... „ 326 Facfimile of Letter of Sir John Fortefcue of Salden ........ „ 367 Sir John Fortefcue of Salden, engraved by Zobel ........ „ 372 Monument to Sir John Fortefcue of Salden . . . . . . . . . „ 375 Monument to Sir Francis Fortefcue ........... ,,417 Map of the Cotentin ............. „ 449 Coats of Arms borne by the Fortefcue Family ......... „ 474 Facfimile of firft page of Norman Chartrier To face Cbartrier 1 Facfimile of folio 13 of fame .......... „ 12 WOODCUTS PRINTED WITH THE TEXT. ALLAPIT HOUSE Seal of Chancellor Fortefcuc Buckland-Filleigh Church Seal of Richart Fortefcu Seal of Sir Faithful Fortefcue Carifbrooke, Church, Iflc of Wight Signature of Sir Adrian Fortefcue Seal of the fame ...... Seal of Sir John Fortefcue of Saldcn . Sir John Fortefcue of Salden, with Cecil and Popham Brafs to Lady Fortefcue in Murl'eley Church Coat of Arms of Thomas Fortefcue Seal of Jehan Fortefcu, a.d. 1379 Seal of Jehan Fortefcu, a.d. 1388 Seal of Guillaumc Fortefcu, a.d. 1403 Seal of Pierre Fortefcu, a.d. 1419 Two Seals of Arms, a.d. 1403 and 1429 Signature of G. Fortefcu . Clermont Lodge, Norfolk . Page 28 72 149 172 '75 >97 271 271 334 358 376 4:4 457 459 461 463 476 On lajl page of Chartrit r . On firj] page of twin. CORRECTIONS FOR HISTORY OK THE FAMILY Ol- 1 OK 11 SCI h Page io, line i,/or "North Melton" read" North Molton." Page 42, line 13, for " died in I 783 " read 11 died in 1733." Page 54, line 10, for ** Robert Corbet " read " Roger Corbet." Page 137, line \~$,for " Granville " rdidr.' ut pro me oretur in Rotul' Orator' xx\ Item volo quod executor meus dillribuat paupcribus in parochia predicla omni die Veneris parafcev* per fpacium feptem annor' vj\ fiij*. viz. unicuique eorum iiij''. Item volo quod dominus Danyell capital' meus habeat per fpacium duorum annorum annuatim quatuor marcas cum convidtu ct toga ut oret pro me. Itin volo quod Henricus filius meus habeat revercionem olm illoru mefuag' cum pertinen' in Newton Sandti Gery et poll ejus dcccllum fui hered' quam huT ex conceflu prioris et convent' monafterii de Plympton pro termino annor' ut in quadam carta fpeciticat'. Item volo quod oml conjugati heafit iiij' 1 ct fui uxores iiij '. Item volo quod viduar et vidue habeant linguli ij' 1 . Item volo quod prior de I'lvmpton habeat vj\ viij d . et unufquifque canonicus ejus prioratus xij' 1 ad celebrand' miflam ct exequias pro me et ridel* dcfundl'. Item volo quod prior de Totton' habeat iij\ iiij 1 '. Et unufquifque monacus ibidem viij '. ad celebrand' miflam et exequias pro falute anime mce ct omnium fidclium defundtor'. Reliduum vero bono' meo' ultcrius non legatorum do et lego Henrico filio meo quern quidem Hcnricum ordino, facio ct conflituo meum verum cxecutorcm ad impiend' hanc meam ultimam voluntatem prout fibi melius videbitur. Item ordino ct conltituo Johannem lortcfeu fratrem meum (uperviforem ad hanc meam voluntatem pcrimplcnd'. " Proved at Lamehith on the 1 2 day of February, a.d. 1 521 , by the oath of Henry Fortefcu executor in the s' will nominated." William Fortefcue was fucceeded by his fon and heir Henry, born in 1499, marr ' C( J 1 LP. M. c i o Families of P reft on and W ood. to Agnes, daughter and heir of William St. Maur of North Melton ; and died May 3, 1567, 1 leaving, with other children, his fon and heir John, 2 born in 15 19, married to Joan Fortefcue daughter and heir of Anthony Fortefcue of Wood. This John Fortefcue died April n, 1587, at Woodley ; his fon William was feized of Prefton, and of Wood alfo on the death of his mother, 3 who lived after his father. William died at Armington, January 29, 1602, having married :— firft, the daughter of Sir JohnFulford, by whom he left no ifTue ; and fecondly, Margaret, daughter of John Francis of Coombe Florey 1 in Somerfet, who furvived him. By her he obtained a third of the manor of Coombe Florey. His children were one fon Francis, and four daughters, to each of whom he left by will four hundred pounds. 5 There are three poft-mortem inquifitions relating to his eftates ; one taken at South Taviftock, one at Totnefs, and a third at Taunton, for the Somerfet property. His heir, Francis, born in 1598, married the daughter of Sir John Speccot of Speccot in Thornbury, and died April, 1649, ' eay i n g by his will 1000/. each to two of his daughters, Anne and Deborah. 6 He was fucceeded by his third furviving fon Sir Peter Fortefcue of Wood, created a Baronet in January, 1666-67, married, firft, to Bridget, daughter of Sir John Eliot, of Port- Eliot in Cornwall, and fecondly, to Amy, daughter of Peter Courtenay, Efq. of St. Michael, and widow of Sir Peter Courtenay, Knight. Leaving no male ifTue — his only fon Peter having died an infant — the Baronetcy became extincl: at his death in 1685. He left three daughters, — Amy, married to John Fortefcue fon of Arthur Fortefcue of Penwarne in Cornwall, who left no ifTue; Bridget; and Elizabeth, married in 1667 to John Turberville, Efq. fon of John Turberville of Golden in Somerfet, 7 and had ifTue a fon. Sir Peter, by his will dated June 29, 1675, leaves his "real eftate in truft for fuch daughter who mould marry a Fortefcue." 8 From this it may be fuppofed that his daughter Amy, the wife of John Fortefcue, inherited the eftate. She, however, had no iflue. Thus the families of Prefton in the male line, and of Wood in both male and female lines, were extinguiftied. 1 *• P - M - 2 I. P. M. 3 See the p e dig r ee of Fortefcue of Wood. 4 I- P- M. s Wills. 6 Wills 7 Wills; and alfo in Stem. Fort. 8 N.B. See a Will of Peter Fortefcue of Prefton, 1672. FAMILY OF SPRIDLESTONE. John Fortescue of Spridle-: ftone, 3rd fon of John For- tescue of Wimpftone, by Joan Pruteston. :Alice, dau. of John COCKWORTHY of Cockworthy in Yarn- combe. ( l) Richard; of Spridle- ftone. ^Elizabeth, d. and c. h. of Ro- bert Knolles, of North Mimms, Herts, died 1549. (2) NlCHOLAS,=pKATHERINE, Groom Porter to Henry VIII., died 1549- d. of Robert Skinner of Shelfield, Warwick- fhire. (3) Nicholas,=Eliza- died in 1550, beth. without iffue. (4) Lewis, Baron of Exchequer, died 1545. ^Elizabeth, d. and heir of John Fortescue of Fallapit. (See Cookhill Pedigree.) JOHN,=pFLORENCE, dau. 1 I Humphrey. born 1515- of Michael Vivian, of Tre- lawarren. I i i John,=pJoan, dau. Richard, Robkrt.=p (5.) Anthony ; Marfhal of the Army in Ireland, 1547. died 1602. of Robert Shap- leigh. died about 1580. Mary.=Peter Parnel. Honor. =Thomas Elizabeth. Coffin. Barbara. Mary.=Symonds of Hal- berton. I I John, =f= • . • dau. Edward. b. 1580, I of ... . d. 1609. I Pitt. "1 Eliza-=Zachary beth. black- ALLEN. John. John, : b. 1607. Edward,^ =Dorothy, dau. John. died of Richard 1 702. Crossing. r 1 1 1 John. Edward. 1 j Richard. Joanna-=Nicholas Dorothea,= Phineas Maria, Webb, of mar. 1695. Anthony Nicholas. mar. 1694. Landulph in Corn- wall. Elizabeth,=John mar. 1690. Harwood, of Exeter. of Tamer- ton in Cornwall. Rebecca,= 5th dau. =Georgf. Fortescue, brother to Henry For- tescue, of Buckland- Filleigh. John Fortescue, of Bampton, afterwards of Buckland-Filleigh. (See that Pedigree.) Family of Spridleftone. 1 1 Chap. III. The Forte/cues of Spridleftone. HE branch of the Wimftonc Fortefcues which comes next in order is that which took its rife from John Fortefcue the younger, third fon of William of Wimftonc, by Mabel Fowell, ftyled John Fortefcue of Spridleftone from the manfion and eftate of Spridleftone in the parifh of Brixton, near Plympton, left to him by his father. He married Alice, daughter of John Cockworthy or Keckworthy, 1 of Cockworthy in Yarncomb, by whom he had ifTue, — firft, Richard; fecond, Nicholas, Groom Porter to Henry VIII., who died in 1549, and was anceftor of the prefent family of Knottesford Fortefcue ; third, Lewis, a Baron of the Exchequer, who died in 1545, having married the heirefs of the Fortefcues of Fallapit ; and fourth, Anthony Marfhal of the army in Ireland, 2 to which office he was appointed by Patent dated December 1 8th, 1547, 38 Henry VIII., under the title of " Marefcall, exercitus et aliorum belligerorum in regno Hiberniae." 3 He had two years before ferved in the expedition to Scotland, undertaken by Henry to enforce his defign of bringing about an union between England and Scotland by the marriage of his fon Edward with the Princefs Mary.' The Earl of Lennox went to Ireland to gain troops for this purpofe, which were placed under the command of the Earl of Ormonde. The Lord Deputy, St. Leger, writes thus to the Privy Council : — " Kilmainham, October loth, 1545. M The Erie of Lennox hath made fuch inftant requeft to have with him John Travers, Mafter of the Ordonance, and Anthony Fortefcue, with certain gunners and archers, alleging to me that it was his Majefty's pleafure that he mould have fuch as he thought good, I have, by the pcrmilTion of the Council here, put in readinefs the fame John and Anthony, with a fon of mine own ; and with them one hundred gunners and archers ; fo as I reckon with mariners all, they fhall be 2400 men, with 10 or 12 fhips well provided with good artillery, befide other botes." s This Anthony has been in many pedigrees confounded with Sir Anthony Fortefcue, brother of Sir John of Salden, and a much younger man, being born about 1 536. 1 Lodge and Afhmolc MS. * See Vifitation of Surrey, 1530, 1 572, 1623; Harl. MS. 3 Pat. Rolls, 3rd Hen. VIII., Lyfons' Devon, ii. 73. 4 Kapin, i. 835; Carte's Ormonde, vol. i. p. Jl. 6 State Papers, Hen. VIII., Part 3, p. 535. 12 Family of Spridleflone. Richard Fortefcue of Spridleftone, the eldeft fori, married Elizabeth daughter and co-heir of* Robert Knolles of North Mimms, in Hertford/hire ; 1 by this lady, who furvived him, and died October 25, 1549, he obtained lands in Weke in the parifhof Sexley-Monachorum, in Devon, held of the king by knight's fervice. 2 Their iflue were two fons, John and Humphrey. John of Spridlefton, the eldeft fon, was born in 1515 ; he married Florence daughter of Michael Vivian of Trelawarren in Cornwall ; by whom he had iflue, with other children, his fon and heir John, married to Joan daughter of Robert Shapleigh, and a fecond fon Richard, who left a will dated March 3, 1578, and proved May 3, 1580, which is extant, and of which a few particulars may be given. He alludes to "an adventure on the feas" in which he took part. He leaves his lands called Saltram, in Plympton-St.-Mary, which he had by demife from his father, to his nephew John Fortefcue, fon of his late brother Robert. He gives a bequeft to the poor of St. Andrew's, Holborn, and of Brixton (in Devon), and directs that five gold rings with a tiger engraved thereon be made, one to be given to each of the overfeers of his will, namely, to " John Fortefcue of Spurleftone, my father ; " George Davey of Claveley ; " John Fortefcue of Woode ; " John Fortefcue of Fallapitt, Efquire, and " Walter Hele of Wollyngton." He leaves his elder brother John Fortefcue his executor. This elder brother died in the year 1602, 3 leaving his eldeft fon, John, twenty-two years old at his father's death. His fecond fon, Edward, is defcribed in his father's will as " a prifoner at Litchbourne" (Lifbon ?). John, born 1 580, only furvived until 1609, when he left his fon and heir, alfo John, aged 2 years. 4 Of this John Fortefcue, who lived during the great Civil War, we have fome particulars preferved in the " Compofition Papers." He was a Royalift, and was obliged to compound for his eftate for 202/., but appears afterwards to have joined the Parliamentarians ; for there is a certificate, dated April 24, 1649, fi g ne ^ by Fairfax, of his having been a " Lieutenant-Colonel of Reformadoes in Sir James Smythe's Brigade, and came off upon the articles of Truro." He in his turn died, and left, with other children, a fon and heir Edward, 5 who, in 1667, married Dorothy daughter of Richard Crofting, and died in 1702, having had three fons, and five daughters. 1 Pedigree, Harl. MS. 1538, fol. 87. 2 j p M 2 , , „' ' ' 4 I. P. M., Compofition Papers, and Biograph. Brit., 2000. " btemm. Fort. Family of Spridleflone. '3 It is recorded of this Mr. Fortefcue of Spridleftone, 1 that he caufed to be planted near to the churchyard of his parifh of Brixton, in the year 1677, a fine grove of elms, for the purpofe of their being in due time fold for the benefit of the poor. A ftone placed on the fpot bears this infcription : " This colony of elms regularly difpofed into walks, was planted in November, 1677, DV Edward Fortefcue of Spridleftone, Efquire, churchwarden, with the approbation and contribution of the majority of eftated pariftuo- ners, to the intent that when perfect in growth and fold lands may be purchafed with the money for relief of the poor of this parim, and that pofterity reaping the advantage of our benefaction, may be encouraged to provide for more fucceflion by planting others in their place." We are told by the hiftorian of Devonfhire that feveral of thcfe trees have from time to time been blown down by the wind and fold, and that in the year 18 19 fixteen of them were cut down in fulfilment of the wifh of the planter, and produced a fum of 92/. 2s., which was funded for the poor, " as land cannot legally be purchafed," and their places were ordered to be filled with young trees. The following lines were copied from the ftone in 1796: — "May Mithridate's fpirit ftill affright. Such as our living gallary's difpit, Cleoncs and Agamemnon's fate Seize on fuch as think not facred w'. is bate, And enemies, deemed to poor, to Church and State."* The fons of Edward Fortefcue died unmarried, and the eftatcs pafled to the youngeft daughter Rebecca Fortefcue. She married George Fortefcue of Taviftock, younger brother of Henry Fortefcue of Buckland-Fillcigh, who by her had a fon John, of Bampton in Oxfordshire, who inherited that eftate upon the death, in 17 52, of his coufin Mary daughter of the Right Honourable William Fortefcue Mafter of the Rolls, and who, in right of his mother the heirefs of Spridleftone, fucceeded to the latter property alfo — he had no iftue, and both the properties pafled at his death to his After, Rebecca Fortefcue. Thus it appears that the elder line of the Spridleftone family, which began with John Fortefcue the younger, third fon of William Fortefcue of Wimftone, failed in the male line upon the death of Edward Fortefcue in 1 702. Rebecca Fortefcue, who fucceeded to Spridleftone, married Caleb Inglett, Efquire, of Chudleigh, and was fucceeded at Spridleftone by her fon Richard, who took the name of 1 Lyfons' Devon, Part ii. p. 75, and from Brixton Regiflef in Stemmata Fortefcuana. 2 Stemmata Fortefcuana. A very oblcurc doggrell ! the note fays "it was copied as exaclly as poffible " from the Kcgifter. Family of Spridleflone. Fortefcue, and was fucceeded in his eftates by his only fon, John Inglett Fortefcue, 1 who, in 1785, fold both Spridleflone and Buckland-Filleigh eftates. The purchafer of Spridleftone was Mr. Lane of Coffleet, and the old manfion of the Fortefcues is now inhabited by a farmer. 2 1 Lyfons' Devon, ii. 73. 2 See Monuments in Buckland-Filleigh Church, and Fortefcues of Buckland-Filleigh in this work, for further particulars. FAMILY OF COOKHILL, WHEATLEY, AND ALVESTON MANOR. Nicholas Fortescue, 2nd fon of=pKATHERiNE, dau. of Robert John Fortescue of Spridleftone, by Alice Cockworthy ; was Groom Porter to Henry VIII. ; died 1549. Skinner, of Shelfield, War- wickfhire. William of Cookhill and Wheatley,=j=URSULA, dau. of Richard New-port. died Jan. 6, 1605. (1) Wil- liam. =Jane, dau. of Sir John Wilde, Worcefter- fhire. (l) Sir Nicholas of Cook-=j=PRUDENCE, dau. of hill, Chamberlain of Ex- chequer 1624; d. 1633. (2) John of Cookhill=j=jANE, dau. of — D'Ewes William Whet- ley, of Norfolk. and Wheatley, cir. 1663. of Welbourne, who died 1674- (2) Fran— CIS. -Frances, dau. of Sir John Peyton, co. Oxon. (3) Ed-=Frances, mund. dau. of Brydges Lord Chandos. (4) Nicho- las, Knight of Malta. (5) John. Mar-=Nicholas tha. Lewis, of Wales. Pru- dence. C 1 ) Nicholas, difinherited by his father ; no iffue. (2) William, of Cookhill, d. 1706. Catherine, dau. of Sir Richard Braune. Mary. Frances. Tertian =Charles Knottes- FORD. Philadelphia. John of= Cook- hill, b. i623,d. 1692. 1 Francis, a Roman Catholic Prieft, died at Douay. -Alieca, Fran- b. 1628, cis. d. 1664. Arabella, ob. 1732. Jane, died 1739- John of Cookhill,= ob. 1 757- =Thf.odosia, dau. of Hugh Braune of Bridgetown, b. 1689, d. 1764. (1) John, Captain H.N. ; b. 1 727 ; d. 1808. ^Frances, d. of Major Nanton of Antigua, d. 1780. (2) William no iffue ; d. 1774. (3) Charlotte, died unmarried. (4) THEODOSIA.=pReV. W. b. 1752, d. Williams. 1823. A daughter. (5) Francis,: mar. lft, to Mary Knot- tesford ; died S.P. : 2dly, Frances Trehearne, d. 1822. (6) Charles, (7) Hugh, Reclor of died un- Roufelinch ; married, died S.P. 1806. j John, born=pMARY Glover. 1 747 ; died 1825. Frances, born: 1 76 1 ; died 1793- =Rev. J. Morgan. Leaving iffue. Francis, in Holy: Orders ; took the name of Knottes- ford ; b. 1772; d. 1859. ^Maria, dau. of Rev. George Downing. John, died 1868. M.Walker. Hi:nry,=pJulia Rich- died 1876. ARDSON ; 2nd, Frances Sanley. ( 1 ) Francis, born 1806 ; died S.P. 1818. M\RY.=j=J. Young. 2 daughters Children. r Edward Francis=fAlicia Mar Knottesford Fortescue of Alvcfton Manor Houfc, b. 1840. garetta, d. of Rev. J. Tyrwhytt, 1870. Mary,=G. A. Maci- born rone, Efq. 1841; died 1879. (2) Frances: Catherine, born 1808 ; died 1873. :Rev. J. Dewe. (3) George Downing, born 1 8 14; died 1826. S.P. rrr ~m 3 fons and 3 daughters. John, b. Laurence, =EMiLY,d. 1843; d- born 1845. of J. R. 1864, Russell, S.P. Efq. Frvnces Gahriella, Maria Johanna Baptista, John Nicholas, Faithful Edward, born l8 " 1 - born 1873. born 1874. born 1878. (4) Maria^Rcv. F. S. Marga- Jackson. RETTA, b. 1816. 4 daughters. George,=Eliza, b.1847; dau. of married Rev. J. 1875. Blatch. Frances^ Anne, dau. of Arch- deacon Spooner, 1838; d. 1868. :(5)Edmund=[= Ger- BOWLES Knottes- ford For- tescue, in Holy Orders ; b. 1816; d. 1877. trude, dau. of Rev. San- derson Robins, 1871, 2nd wife. Vincent, b. 1 849 ; in Holy Orders. Charles Ninian, born 1855; died 1855. Clara Mary Katherine, born 1872. Adrian Henry, born 1874. I Gertrude Raphael, born 1875. Family of Cookhill and Wheatley. J 5 Chap. IV. The Forte/cues of Cookhill and Wheatley. PON the failure of the elder line of Spridleftone, as above defcribed, that which fprung from Nicholas, a younger fon of John Fortefcue of Spridleftone by Alice Cockworthy, becomes the fenior houfe. The pedigrees for the moft part make Nicholas, the Groom Porter, and anceftor of the Fortefcues of Cookhill, to be the fecond fon of the aforefaid John. The pedigree in the Vifitation of Worcefter 1 in i 569, afligns to John two fons named Nicholas — the firft the Groom Porter, being by a namelefs wife ; the fecond Nicholas being by " the dau. of Skinner," fecond wife of John. In the Arms and Pedigrees of Devon Families* two fons Nicholas are recorded, one as legitimate, and the other as u baftard fonne." In like manner, the Visitations of Surrey, in 1530, 1572, 1623, 3 defcribe one as " bafe fon," annexing his arms, which are thofe of Fortefcue with a bordure to the ftiield. We may obferve that Louis Fortefcue, the judge, making his will in 1543, during the lifetime of both the Nicholafes, leaves to his Brother " Nicholas," without the designation of the elder or the younger, u four marks in gold to make a crofs for his wife," as if he acknow- ledged only one brother with that name. There is fcarcely a doubt, however, of the fact that John of Spridleftone had two fons Nicholas; 4 becaufe there are extant two wills, one dated in 1546, and proved in 1550, made by Nicholas Fortefcue of M Spridleftone," mentioning his wife Elizabeth, his elder brother Richard, and his younger brother Lewis; another, dated in 1544, and proved in 1549, by "Nicholas Fortefcue Groom Porter of the King's Moft Honourable Chamber," made on the occafion of his " being appointed to attend the King's Grace in a voiage Royall into France." His wife (Catherine is named, and a fon William; and Mabell and Jane, his daughters, to each of whom he leaves forty pounds, " to be delivered to her at the day of her marriage, fo that fhe be ruled and ordered in her faide marriage by my faidc wife her mother." He bequeaths to his fon M his manor of Wytheley, Co. Worcefter," after his wife's death. The will is given in the appendix to this chapter. 1 Harl. MS. 156b. Viiit. of Worcefter. 3 See Harl. MS. 1538, fol. 87. 1 Harl. MS. 1561, fol. 14. 4 Two brothers with the lame name often occur in old documents. i6 Family of Cookhill and Wheatley. Now, although there is no allufion here to Spridleftone, or to any brothers, yet as the Groom Porter is everywhere, with a fingle exception, 1 called fon of John of Spridleftone, we muft believe him to be fuch, and confequently that he was brother to the other Nicholas, who in his will ftyles himfelf " of Spridleftone." The Groom Porter, ftyled in feveral documents Sir Nicholas, married Katherine, daughter of Robert Skinner, Lord of the Manor of Shelfield in Warwickftiire. 2 In 1537, 29 Henry VIII., he was appointed Keeper of the Park of Malwyke under the Lord Denbighe. 3 He, for his fervices to Henry VIII., received from that king, in the thirty-fourth year of his reign (1542), on the diftolution of the religious foundations, a grant of the lands of the Nunnery of Cokehill, 4 in Cookhill and Church Lench, in Worcefterfhire, fituated on the range of hills dividing that county from Warwickftiire, a few miles weft of Alcefter. " Thefe lands," fays Nafti, writing in 1782, "Henry the Eighth gave to his fervant Nicholas Fortefcue anceftor to the prefent Captain Fortefcue, who was one of thofe that went round the world in the Centurion." s I was informed by the lineal defcendant and reprefentative of Sir Nicholas, the Rev. Edward Knottesford Fortefcue, Dean of Perth Cathedral, writing in 1864, that the manor and eftate remained in his family for eight generations, until the time of John Fortefcue, who married Mifs Mary Glover, who fold the property early in the prefent century. "The old houfe is now (1864) partly ufed as a farm houfe, and traces of the walks and gardens ftill remain." At the fame time with this grant Sir Nicholas received another in the parifti of Campden, in Gloucefterfhire, very near to where, a century before, Chancellor Fortefcue had bought his eftate of Ebrington. This was alfo part of the property of the Cokehill nuns, and was called in confequence, Nun-heys, 6 from " hai," a hedge, park, or inclofure. All thefe grants were to " Nicholas Fortefcue, and Catharine his wife, and to the heirs male of the faid Nicholas." Thefe lands were held of the king by knight's fervice in chief. There is a warrant of the year 1544, "for the delivery of an allowance of ten millings a-day to Nicholas Fortefcue Groom of the King's Houfe," 7 to which Sir Nicholas's fignature is attached. Sir Nicholas, in the 35th Henry VIII., 1543, bought from Maude Lane, the manor 1 Buckland-Filleigh MS. Pedigree, which abfurdly makes the Groom Porter to be the fon of Sir John of Punfborne. 2 Ped. in Proofs of Sir Nicholas. 3 Patent RollSj p . 2 . 4 Nafh's Worcefterfhire, vol. ii. p. 8. 6 This Captain John Fortefcue of the Royal Navy, who died at Cookhill, May 9, 1808, was buried in a vault beneath Cookhill Chapel. See "Genealogift" for October, 1878, p. 117. 6 Rudder's Gloucefterfhire, p. 322. ' 7 Add . MS> (B> M-) 5? J& p &4 Sir Nicholas Fortescue, Chamherlain of the Exchequer , Died A. D. 1633. Sir John Fortescue -Aland first Lord Fortescue ©f Cred&n ., Died A D 1746. Right Hon tle William Fortescue , Master of the Rolls , Died A. D. 1749 . Family of Cookhill and Wheat ley. and eftate of Whethele, or Wheatley, in Warwickshire near to Cookhill. He died Auguft 28, 1549 (being the fame date as that of a codicil of his will), leaving his fon and heir, William, aged nine years. 1 From an entry in the Court of Wards, it appears that the preferment of Groom Porter was granted to Henry Whelar, Gent., one of the Grooms of the King's Chamber, who granted his intereft to Katherine Fortefcue, widow, mother of the ward, and that the " Ward and marriage of William Fortefcue," her fon, was, together with the land defcending, fold to the faid Katherine for 20/. This William, who married Urfula Newport, in compliance with the will of his brother- in-law Walter Newport, dated 34 Elizabeth (1592), which bequeathed a fum of money for the purpofe, fettled a rent charge of 20/. a-year for ever out of his manor of Wetheley for a fchool for the poor at Awfeter (Alcefter).* William Fortefcue died January 6, 1605. An inquifition port mortem, taken July 24, 1607, 3 finds that he died inteftate, leaving his wife Urfula Fortefcue furviving. He had two fons, Nicholas and John, and a daughter, Dorothy. Each of the fons inherited a portion of the landed eftates of their father, and both appear to have lived at Cookhill. The eldeft, Nicholas/ afterwards Sir Nicholas, called in the Compofition Papers "fon and heir," was refident at Cookhill in the year of his father's death, a document being preferved in the State Paper Office relating to fome armour found in his houfe there in November of that year, the month of the famous Gunpowder Treafon. It will be remembered that Cookhill was in a part of the country with which the con- fpirators Catefby and Winter were connected, and to which they and their aflbciates betook themfelves on the failure of the plot. Fortefcue declares that the armour in queftion had been in the houfe five years, "that he had not feen Winter for eight years," and that he had not been fummoned to join the rifing. 5 There is alfo a letter from Chief Juftice Anderfon and Sheriff" Warburton to the Privy Council, dated March 26, 1606, complaining "that Mr. Fortefcue of Warwickfhire, though fummoned to appear before them, had not come forward to be examined." Thefe fufpicions, to which probably every Roman Catholic in that part of England was more or lefs expofed in that time of public alarm, do not appear to have hindered his advancement, which, according to the writer in Biographia Britannica," he owed in a great meafure to his own merits. 1 Dugdale'l Warwickfhire, p. 591. 2 Dugdale, Warwick, p. 543. 3 I. I'. M. * Com. Papen, called "fon and heir." 0 Ibid. p. 253. Cal. State Papers, Tom. 1603-10, p. 304. 1 Biog. Brit., iii. 2000. D « 1 8 Family of Cookhill and JVheatley. '• 9°3, 9°9 ; vol. iii. 203, 212. 1 1. I'. 11 3 o Family of Fallapit, fecond line. In 1645 he obtained from Fairfax an order for the protection of "his home at Eaft Allington from plunder," and petitioned the Committee to prevent the falling of his timber there. His previous " delinquency/' however, was not altogether forgiven, but appears to have been strictly inveftigated, and he was forced to compound for his eftates for the fum of 66 il. 4J. \od. There is a certificate in the " Compofition Papers," that " John Fortefcue of Fallapit took the oath and covenant on the 4th November, 1646 ;" and another, dated June 28, 1649, to teftify " that he was an inhabitant of the City of Exeter for feven months before its furrender." This certificate may have been obtained to prove, by way of alibi, his abfence from more active operations againft the Parliament. Exeter was furrendered to Fairfax in April, 1646. It appears from his will, dated in 1647, that John Fortefcue had married a fecond wife who furvived him. Her name is not given. He defires to be buried at Eaft Allington, " on the north fide of the grave of his never-to-be-forgotten deceafed wife Sarah," who had died feventeen years before. He died in 1649, having furvived his eldeft fon Sir Edmund, the well-known Royalift, and was fucceeded in his eftates by his grandfon, the fecond Sir Edmund. Sir Edmund Fortescue. Sir Edmund Fortefcue, the eldeft fon of John Fortefcue of Fallapit, was born at Fallapit, and baptized in the church of Eaft Allington, July 15, 1610. 1 He married, in 1633, Jane Southcote of Mohun's Ottery. 2 Upon the breaking out of the Civil War, he, like his father and family, took the king's fide. In the year 1642 he was appointed by Charles High Sheriff of Devonfhire, a poft to which he certainly would not have been chofenatthat moft critical time, if he had notfhown other qualifications befides that of his ftation as fon and heir to a gentleman of large eftate. The year of his fhrievalty was deftined to be a memorable one. The Royal Standard was raifed by the king at Nottingham on the 25th of Auguft, and in October of that year the firft conflict between the two parties took place at Edgehill, when each fide claimed a victory. Then followed in moft counties armed rifings of the people. In Devonfhire the Parliamen- tarians were led by the Earl of Bedford, and at firft carried all before them ; but towards the end of the year Sir Ralph Hopton having arrived with a confiderable body of troops, recovered many of the towns for the king, and upon reaching Modbury, a town near Fallapit, was joined by the fheriff at the head of his " Pofle Comitatus," where they were foon furprifed by Colonel Ruthven, "the Scotch Colonel," with 500 Parliamentarian horfe from Plymouth, and, notwithstanding their fuperior numbers, were entirely routed, and Sir 1 Eaft Allington Regiftry. Ped. in Stem. Fort., and Burke Comm. VERA AC VIVA EFFIGIES' EDMVND1 FORTESCVE !>E FALLAPITT IN COMITATV DEVONIAN ^LQVmS AVRATI PRO OBEDIENTIA I SVA CAROLQ M AGN A". BRITTA N N IA. KEGI NVNC IN IK>LLANMA I '.XV LIS, Htir* /j a utiles stvt/i I Jl E F 22 OF MAY. Sir Edmund did not remain long in prifon. The date of his releafe, by exchange or otherwife, does not appear with thofe of his father and brother Peter, but it was not later than the autumn of 1643. In the following year he was once more actively engaged againft the Roundheads in Devonfhire, as his letter to Colonel Seymour, the Governor of Dartmouth, will (liow. The Royalifts then ftill held out bravely. Sir Edmund Forte/cue to Colonel Seymour. "My Dearest Friend, u Prefently, upon the receipt of your letter, I idreflfid myfelf to his Majelty, and made known to him your jult, fair, and moft ncccfTary defires. M His reply to me was, that he wifhed the thing done, but now he could not poffibly fpare any horfe or foot for the redemption of thofe parts from the perjured devils that are now in them. 1 I.yfons' Devon, ii. 341, quoting Vicar's Parliamentary Chronicle, i. 226, 2"1. Sec Clarendon, iv. p. 612, Appendix, for death of Sir Nicholas Shinning. 2 Sec JcfTc's Windfor and Kton, p. 101. 34 Family of Fallapit, fecond line. " But with this I did not reft fatisfied, but with fury made it known to fome of my friends, who, with zeal in thebufinefs, again affaulted the King for a fupply ; buthisanfwer was the fame to them as he formerly gave me. " After which I met with Sir Thomas Hele, and then we joined forces and went at it again. But the king was Jemper idem ; and yet we did not defpair ; but almoft difheartened at laft we delivered all to the Lord Hopton, who was tender of it, and promifed to do his utmoft for our endeavours ; who after much difcourfe with his Majefty, plainly told us that till this argument was thoroughly difputed with Effex no man could have a placet. " This made me almoft mad, and then having a difti of claret, I hartily chirped your health, and another to the fair lady governefs, and then again to the noble governor on top : and after fome few rounds, as long as the French fpirits lafted, in a merry and undeniable humour, I went to Maurice, of whom I had good words and promifes, which again was aftiared me by Wagftaff, — one that loves you, — and I am confident I fhall prevail very fpeedily for fome horfe, either Sir Thomas Hele's or Sir Henry Cafey's Regiment. ct Sir, nothing fhall be neglected by me in which I may do you fervice. Ralph can tell you that in the profecution of it I was near a mifchange on a rotten bridge near the Court, where we are ; and what we do I fhall leave to honeft Enfign Hemmerfon's relation. This is the laft acl of the play. God grant that each man may do his part well. " My moft humble and ever beft fervices fhall attend you, your fair lady, and your's. This is the unalterable refolution of your ever conftant and moft faithful fervant, "E. Fortescue. " From the army near the rebels in Loftwithiel, 23rd Auguft, 1644. " My fervice to Major Fitzjames, Ranfield, Turner, cum multis aliis." 1 Sir Edmund was at this time ferving under and in prefence of the king himfelf, who, with Prince Maurice and Sir Richard Grenville, were encamped near Loftwithiel in Cornwall. Here they preffed fo hardly upon the Earl of Effex and his army, that but a few days after this urgent letter was written, he was forced to embark from the port of Fowey, which lay in his rear, and fo to efcape to Plymouth, leaving his army with General Skippon to make what terms they could with the king. They foon furrendered. The men were allowed to march to Poole and Wareham after giving up their artillery, arms, and ammunition. Their numbers amounted to about 6000, after the departure of Sir William Balfour, who, with the horfe, had broken through the Royal army fome days before with the lofs of 100 troopers. 2 1 The foregoing Letter is printed in Warburton's Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers, vol. iii., from the Duke of Somerfet's MSS. 2 See Lingard, x. 118. Clarendon, book viii., a. d. 1644. Family of Fallapit, fecond line. We next find Sir Edmund engaged in repairing and defending for the king the Fort of Salcombe, which protects the entrance of Salcombe harbour near Kingfbridge, and not far from Fallapit. In 1 643 he had received the following commiflion from Prince Maurice : — " Prince Maurice, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, 1 "To Sir Edmund Fortefcue Knight. " Forafmuch as I have received very good fatisfaction that the fort called the Old Bull- worke near Salcombe, now utterly ruined and decayed, which being well fortified and man'd may much conduce to ye advancement of his Mat . fervice in annoying the rebells, and fecur- ing thofe partes from their incurfions. "And whereas you the faid Sir Edmund Fortefcue have given mee aflurance of your readinefs and diligence in re-fortifying and re maning ye faid fort : " Thefe are to will and require you, heerby giving you full power and authority, by all poflible ways and meanes to refortify and man the (lime, willing and requiring the SherifFe of the County of Devon, and all others his Mat', officers and loveing fubjeds, to ayde and aflift you in perfecting of the faid fortification, which fort with the officers and fouldiers you fhall for his Mat 4 , fervice by vertue of this commiflion receive into your charge and comand, requiring all officers, fouldiers, and others belonging thereunto, you to obey, readily to receive and accomplifh your direccons and comandes. And you yourfelfe in all things well and duely to acquitt yourfelfe for the belt advanefnt of his Mat*, fervice for which this mail be your warrant. "Given at Whitley under my hand and feale att armes, this 9th of December, 1643. " Maurice." This old caftle, of Saxon origin, now known as Salcombe Cattle,* was, after it had been repaired, named Fort Charles. It has now again and long fince become a ruin. It ttaiuls on a rock cut off" from the mainland at high water, and almoft covered by the tide. Hearne calls it "a round fort built in the reign of Elizabeth, a little before the Spanifh invafion." 3 In purfuance of thefe orders Fortefcue fet to work to re-build the fort, and then to gar- rifon, arm, and provifion it. Me has left behind him an account of the details by which thefe operations were effected/ which are here given in full : — 1 Hawkins's I liflory of Kingfbridge, 1819, p. 88, Sec. •' Ilcarnc's MS. Diary, vol. Ixvii. pp. 154-162. ' Iliftory of Kingfbridge, and MS. from Mr. Fortefcue of Fallapit - Mr. Fortefcue 's Letter. Family of Fallapit, fecond line. " Payments and difburfements on Fort Charles, both for the building, viduallynge, and fortifying it with great guns and mufquets. Perfe&ed January ye 15th, anno dom. 1640 (1645). £ s . d. In the building .»•• •••••■ 1355 18 9 And for timber, ordnance, powder, mot, muflcets, fwords, and various warlike articles . . . • • • ; 1031 9 A true and juft particular of all the provifions in Fort Charles, January 15th, 1645, at which time, if- uric ft i r mt i n A t>A ?r\A hpfipcrpA hv ^ir Thnmas Favrefaxe the Parliament General nine it WaS lurrouimeu diiu uciictcu uy on ± nuuiaa ± ayj v,iuav. k|i v »».*.%.»**. £ s. d. Imprimis — 1 butt of facke . - • • 20 0 0 Item, 10 hogfheads of punch — nine at 5/. per hogfhead .... 50 0 0 Item, 1 tun of March beer ...... 17 0 0 Item, 10 tuns of cider at 3/. 10s. ....... 35 0 0 Item, 22 hogfheads of beef and pork at 7/. 10s. per hogfhead 165 0 0 Item, 1 butt of oyle 20 0 0 Item, 3 hogfheads of vinegar 4 0 0 Item, 48 bufhels of peafe at jd. per bufhel ...... 16 15 0 Item, 2 hogfheads of meat 2 16 0 Item, 4 hogmeads of grits ........ 8 0 0 Item, 2000 of poor jacks ........ 15 0 0 Item, 6000 of dried whitings at 8^. per cent. ..... 24 0 0 Item, 300 of ox tongues ...... . 6 0 0 Item, 500 weight of candles ....... 12 10 0 Item, of bifquet, 8000 weight, at 9/. per thoufand ..... 72 0 0 Item, 12,000 weight of butter, at 51. per hundred ..... 3° 0 0 Item, 6 pecks of fruit . 6 0 0 Item, 100 weight of almonds ....... 5 0 0 Item, 15 quarters of coales, at 3/. . 45 0 0 Item, 100 bufhels of charkole ....... 5 0 0 Item, 2 cafes of bottles full with rare and good ftrong waters ... 6 0 0 Item, 20 pots with fweetmeats, and a great box of all forts of efpecially good dry preferves ......... 6 0 0 Item, the Churgion's cheft ........ 16 0 0 Item, 100 weight of raw milk chefe . 1 13 4 Item, 30 barrels of powder, at 61. per barrel . . - 180 0 0 Item, 1000 weight of mufquet balls, at 22 per cent. .... 1 1 0 0 Item, 10 rolls of tobacco, being 600 weight at lid. per pound 30 0 0 Item, for three fides of bacon ....... 4 0 0 Item, for three doz. of poultry ....... 2 5 6 Item, for 5 fheep ......... 3 15 0 Family of Fallapit^ fecond line. 37 Item, for 35 tunne of cafkes for beer, cider, beef, pork, fifh, grits, meat peafe, and water, at 16s. per tunne Item, for 200 of lemons The total fum is More for great fhotte In all it makes the full fum of Long live King Charles. Amen. I s. d. 28 o o o 16 8 740 1 6 32 17 6 3157 17 6 Memorandum. — That in thefe accounts of 31 57/. 1 71. 6d. y not one penny is put down for beds, bedfteads, cerecloths, meets, blankets, bolfters, pillowes, curtinges, vallances, curtain-rodds, pewter, table-boards, cupboards, fpoons, buckets, tubbs, potes, glades, bedroods, matts, all the beams and timber, chayres, ftools, chefts, firepanns, {hovels, tongs, and irons, bellowes, and all other forts of houfehold ftufF with which 'tis fully furnifhed. Attcfted by me, E. Fortescue. Item, more for forty halberds, at 6s. %d. each halberd .... Item, for 86 great bafketes to ftand full with earth on the upper decks, and on the tops of the walls, at 5;. 6d. each bafkett ..... Item, for 46 lefs baflcetts for the fame purpofe, at lod. each bafkett This fumme is . This fumme of 38/. js. od. being added to the former fumme of 3 1 57/. I "Js. 63'5- and Fa?nily of Fallapit, firjl line. 45 John Fortefcue is returned among thofe who in the 12th of Henry VI. (1433-34) had lands in Hertfordfhire enabling them "to fpend Ten pounds p r . annum." This, Chauncey 1 calls " a fair eftate." His death occurred between 1431 and 1437, probably in 1435. 2 Weftcote, the hiftorian of Devonfhire, writing in 1630, 3 calls Sir John of Meaux "a worthy and fortunate commander under that terror of France, and mirror of Martialifts Henry the fifth ;" and Rifdon and Fuller follow in the fame tone. Of Sir John of Meaux's three fons, two chofe the profeflion of the law, and they both rofe to difr.inc~r.ion. Henry, the eldeft, appears to have ftudied at Lincoln's Inn ; for we find in the lift of Governors of that Houfe his younger brother, Sir John, ftyled Fortefcue "junior" in the 6 Henry VI.* He no doubt diftinguifhed himfelf more or lefs in the courts, although we have no particulars of his career, unlefs he is the Henry Fortefcue who was member of Parliament for Devon, 9 Henry V. (1421),' until he is fent to Ireland as Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas in the 4th Henry VI., his appointment bearing date June 25th, 1426, 11 quamdiu fe bene gefTerit." We learn from entries in the Irifh Chancery Rolls that his falary was fixed at forty pounds per annum, and afterwards by a fecond Patent altered to forty pence per diem. He alfo received a grant of the cuftody of certain manors." Sir Henry did not hold this office long ; for, whether through fome intrigue, or by his own wifh, he was "relieved" from the office on the 8th of November, 1427/ by the king's writ. If we may believe Fuller, his character for uprightnefs as a judge flood high, he being "juftly of great efteem for his many virtues, efpecially for his fin- cerity in fo tempting a place." He is ftyled by the Lord Lieutenant " Chief Juftice of Ireland." 8 His fault, in the eyes of thofe who had fent him, may have been too much fympathy with the Englifh fettlers in Ireland ; although Lodge affirms that "he enjoyed a large fharc of the royal favour." He certainly, foon after he had ceafed to be Chief Juftice, was fent, with Sir James Alleyn, by the Commons of Ireland into England "to lay before the king their complaints, and the ftate of the country." 9 And again, in November, 1428, the Lords and Commons in Parliament aflemblcd at Dublin, with Sir John Sutton the Lord Lieutenant, 10 drew up Articles of Complaint, which 1 Clutterbuck's Herts, ii. 348, quoting Chaunccy, Herts, p. 310. 2 Proceedings in Chancery, temp. Klizabcth, printed in I 830, vol. ii. p. xviii. 3 Weftcote'l View of" Devon, 395. 4 Dugdale, Orig., p. 257. 5 Willis, Not. Pari. I do not know any one clfe of his name at that period. fi Rot. Pat. Cone. Hib., 5 Hen. VI. 7 Rot. Claus. Cone. Hib., 6 Henry VI. 8 Rot. Claus. Cone. Hib., 7 Hen. VI., p. 240. ' Rot. Claus. Cone. Hib., 7 Hen. VI. 10 Rot. Claus. et Pat. in Cone. Hib., 7 Hen. VI., p. 247. 4 6 Family of Norreis and W wd ; were fealed with the Great Seal of Ireland, and delivered to Henry Fortefcue, ftill ftyled « Capitalis Jufticiarius de capitali placita," and Sir Thomas Strange, Knight, empowering them to lay the articles before the King and Council in London. Their chief grievances appear to have been the frequent change of governors, and the affaults, robberies, and arrefts perpetrated upon Irifhrnen travelling in England, and the falfe accufations made to the king againfl: the Governors and Juftices of Ireland. They pray that debts incurred by former Lord Lieutenants may be paid off ; that ftudents going from Ireland to ftudy the Law mould be received, as formerly, into the Inns of Court, and not continue to be, as then, excluded ; and they complain efpecially of the « late aggreffion committed upon Chief Juftice Fortefcue and Sir James Alleyn, when on their late miffion to England," and pray that the guilty parties may be puniihed. After this fecond miffion we hear no more of Sir Henry, who feems to have returned to Devonmire, until about the year 1431, when the Records of Chancery Proceedings inform us that he was charged by Richard Sackville, and Margery his wife, with having wrongfully difpoffeffed them from their lands and houfing at Nethercombe. The Bill complains that " the faid Herry Fortefcue, late Juftice of Ireland, with Richard his brother, and great people of Irysfhmen and Scottys, in the manner of werre arrayed," did break open their doors, &c, as will be feen by reading the document in full, which here follows : — Richard Sackville and Margery his Wife v. Henry Fortefcue, late Juftice of Ireland. To recover poffeffion of land and houffing in Nethercombe, in Devonfhire, of which the Defendant has wrongfully difpoffeffed them. To the Chancellor of Englonde our gracious Lorde : Befeecheth you mekly gracious Lorde your pore oratours Richard Sackville, and Margerie his wyf, that where the faid Richard and Margery, their aunceftors and tho whofe aftate they hadden, fithe the tyme of King Edward, the xxiii yeare of his reigne, have hadde and conteined poffeffion, and other perfones by their graunte of a ferthying of londe, with howfynge theruppon, in Nythercombe, in Devenfchire (by grante of one Hugh Cumba to one John Shipham, and to his heires for evermore, refer ving xvj.s. of rente whiche Margerie, John her fadere, and Richard thir aiel, and all other whofe aftate they hadden yn the fed londe and howfynge, have paid the fed xvj {hillings of rente unto the feide Hugh Cumba, and to his, difendablye fro him unto one Herry Fortefcue, late juftice of Monde, &c, cofyn unto the feide Hugh, which yeres and daies was paid of the feide xvj.s of rent by the feide Richard and Margerie, unto now late, that the feide Herry with Irysfhemen, Scottys, and other, yn the manere of werre arraied, wrongefully put out the faide Richard and Margerie their feffes, their tennants in taille, yn dower, tyme of lyf, and other which ther not pourfue for thair righte of the faide londe and houfynge, and of other londe. And fo poffeffion fewyd affize by grete fotolte and maintenance, which is dyfcontinued and no judgement yevyn, and yet he occupied his faid wronge poffeffion, and hath made grete deftruccion and wafte, and fo mannaffed the faide Richard that they durft nouzt come ne occupy there . . for dowte of death. And after that by and Family of Fallapit^ firjl line. 47 mediation of certayne perfones was made awarde at Holbeton ye viii ,h dai of March, 1 the ix' b year of the Kyng that now ys, our moft fouveraine and gracious lorde, which award the faide Richard and Margerie were redy to have performed (to their) power, and as ytt appeareth of record ; butte the faide Herry for to deftroie and difherit the faide bifechers and other forfaide wrongfully, he and others of his afTent ymagined an untrue awarde, wretyn, endented, and feled, of the faide londe and howfynge, and berynge an hande that the faide Richard ne Margerie wolde noutz performe that awarde made att Holbeton ; and becaufe of nounpayment of xx.s att fefte of Efter, when it was twelvemonth and more after the feide fefte, or the feide befechers knew the feide awarde, condempned the feide Richard to an cxl. marke, uppon the feide untrewe awarde, and cntrarie thereto, and to the plee of the faide Herry, by caufe of an untrue and deceveable entre yn the rolle of a clerke by procuringe of one William Elyot attourney, and by other of his afTent, and after that ferved execution of all their londes, goodes, and cattels, fo that they had nouzt to Jeve ne hem to fufteigne thereuppon in no manner wyfe, butte made hem beggars ; and noutwithftandynge that their friends after that yaf hem goode to fufteine and helpe hem and thair children therewith of almnefTe, yet the faide Herry, Richard his brother, with grete peuple of Irysfhemen and other in the manore of wcrre arraied, come to the dwellyne of the faide Richarde Sackville (he and his wyf, here moder, and here children beynge in thair bedde) and brake thair dores and cofres, with horrible gov'naunce cryinge and fhotte, and come to hys bedde, and toke hym with oute warrante, and toke his bedde-clothes, aff'raicd and cafte out the faide children al naked fore wepyng and cryinge, and toke other goodes and catelles as a bille reherfeth, lete his wyf beynge grete and quyckle with childe, her moder, and her fonne, and lefte hem there for dede, which was caufe of the faide childe's deth, and of mo other vf God hadde nouzt fortuned, and leddc hym forth to Exeftre, and ther kept hym in prifone till they hadde a warrant fro the juftice of pees, and berynge an hande that they tokyne hym by that warant, and after that ferved a capias of execucion, and fo ledde hym to London, and ther have kept hym in prifone all this three yeare and more uppon the feide untrue awarde, and by caufe that the faide bifechers wol nouzt graunte unto the faide Herry, and to his heirs the faide londe and houfyngc, where the mowe nouzte in no wyfe, and wher the faide Herry hath no right, as it |>rith by the faide evidence and pofTeffion, and by otherc, and alfo by the favynge of 'John Forte feu, fader of the faide Herry afore his deth. Whrfor the faide bifechers . . . bifecheth your gracious Lordihipc toconfider how thev have fued this 6 yeare and more, and both utterly deftroyed, and in prifone, and may nouzt few we have the cue lawe by caufe of pov'te and imprifonmcnt, and by caufe of grete maintenance, aflurancc, and pjuric, and for other divers caufes, befechyngc youc gracious lorde, to call hem that been p'fent and |>tie in thes materes, and to fende for the faide Herry, and for hem that been jitieand affente, to appear before your gracious prcfence, and after the commaundement of oure moftc drcde fovraine lorde, to be dewly examined of alle the premifles of this bille, with other circumftances thcrof, as the faide bifechers fchalle more openly declare afore your gracious prcfence, and to do dew jurticc and remedvc to the faide bifechers and .... and in favingc of the right of our feide fovraine lorde for pitc, for the love of God, and cfiitc. Declaracio Rici Sachcville ct Margie UxTs ejus." 1 i.e. a. d. 1431. 2 See Proceedings in Chancery, reign of Queen Elizabeth, with Earlier Proceedings from Rieliaid II to Richard III., 3 vols, folio, 1830, vol. ii. p. xviii., Henry VI. 48 Family of Norreis and Wood ; Sir Henry was married twice, each time to an heirefs. His firft wife was Joan, 1 daughter to Edmund Bozun, of Bozun's Hele, heir to the family of Wood in South Devon, by whom he had a fon, John, who inherited the eftate of Wood, and left it to his heir, as we mall pre- fently fee. His fecond wife was the daughter and heir of Nicholas de Fallapit, by whom he had a fon, Richard, who inherited Fallapit from his mother. The Fortescues of Wood (ist Family). Sir Henry Fortefcue was fucceeded in his eftates by his eldeft fon, John, 2 who alfo inherited Wood from his mother. John's fon and heir was William, who left a fon, Robert, who was fucceeded by his fon, Anthony Fortefcue of Wood, who married Ellen, 3 daughter of Humfrey Waldword of Bradfield, by whom he had not any male heir, and only one daughter, Joan; who, marrying John Fortefcue of Prefton (who died 1587), conveyed the Wood eftate to that branch, as has been already narrated. There is no record in the Pedigrees of the names of the families into which the foregoing pofleflbrs of Wood married, nor of any children befides the fons and heirs ; nor have I been able to trace them in the Inquifitions Poft Mortem, or in the family wills. The Fortescues of Fallapit. " Fallapit," fays Pole, " belonged unto the name of Falleput ; of which name I find fucceffively to enjoye the fame, Robert, John, John, Philip, and Nicholas, whofe only daughter, . . .'was fecond wife unto Henry Fortefcue, Juftice of Ireland, and eldeft fon of Sir John Fortefcue, Captain of Meaux." i The Fallapit or Valeput family poflefled the eftate from the end of the thirteenth century, if not earlier, and it has paffed from them through the Fortefcues of two branches to the Wells family, with whom it ftill continues, fo that the prefent Mr. Wells Fortefcue may boaft of an inheritance almoft fix centuries old. The fon of Sir Henry Fortefcue by the Fallapit heirefs was Richard, who, marrying Margaret, daughter of Robert Hill of Shilfton, in the parim of Modbury, left a fon and heir, John, who married Margaret, daughter and co-heir of William Hingefton of Womb- 1 Collins, vol. v. 337, and Vifitation of Devon, 1564, &c. Lodge, Peerage of Ireland, makes her daughter of Wood. 2 Stemmata Fortefcuana, Coll. of Arms Pedigree. 3 g ee g terru p ort 4 Pole, Coll. of Devon, p. 290. Selden in his preface to De Laudibus quotes from the Coffin MS. "John Fortefcue de Valepit held 8th Edwd. I. Stancourt-Prior in Colrug. Hund. Devon." and Family of Fallapit, firfi line. 49 well, in the fame parifh. This " John Fortefcue of Vallepit " is named among thofe who accompanied Courtenay, 1 6th Earl of Devon, to the relief of Exeter, befieged by Perkin Warbeck about 1495. 1 He had no fon, and only one daughter, Elizabeth Fortefcue, his heirefs, who, however, by choofing a Fortefcue for her hufband kept her patrimony in the name. She married Lewis Fortefcue, third fon of John Fortefcue of Spridleftone, as we have before feen. He became a Baron of the Exchequer in the end of the reign of Henry VIII., and died in 1545. Their iflue was fix fons and four daughters; of whom the eldeft fon, John, fucceeded at Fallapit, being the firfi: of the fecond family there, whofe hiftory has been already traced. Thus the male defcendants of Sir Henry Fortefcue failed, as well thofe fpringing from his firft marriage with the Wood heirefs, as thofe by his fecond marriage with the daughter of Nicholas de Fallapit. 1 Gilbert's Parochial Hiftory of Cornwall, vol. ii. p. 190. H Chancellor Forte/cue. Chap. VII. Chancellor Sir John Forte/cue. REFERENCE to the genealogical tree will mow that, by the completion of the account of the defcendants of Sir John Fortefcue of Meaux, through his eldeft fon Sir Henry, we have come down to the fecond fon of the faid Sir John, namely, Chancellor Sir John Fortefcue, Lord Chief Juftice of England. The eminence to which this perfonage attained, and the circumftance that he became the direct anceftor of fome of the principal branches of the family which have lafted to the prefent time, require that nothing relating to him fhould be pafled over, but that the fcanty materials for his biography which have come down to us mould be fully inveftigated. Although feveral pedigrees have made him to be grandfon of Sir John the Governor of Meaux, and fon of Sir Henry Fortefcue Chief Juftice in Ireland, they are certainly in error, becaufe a careful comparifon of the periods during which the three perfons in queftion held their public appointments will mow that it is fcarcely poffible that Sir Henry and the Chan- cellor 1 could have flood to each other in the relation of father and fon, and becaufe ftill ftronger, and what for the prefent purpofe may be called conclufive, evidence is found in a contemporary document/ where it is incidentally mentioned that " Herry Fortefcue, late Juftice in Ireland," was the fon of John Fortefcue, and that he had a brother Richard; and this laft being alfo brother of the Chancellor, it follows that he and Sir Henry were likewife brothers. 3 Of the place of his birth there is no pofitive mention. Prince 4 fays that it was " moft likely Norris, near South Brent in Devonfhire." This was a feat belonging to his mother, who was daughter and heirefs of William Norris of Norris, where her anceftors had been fettled for eight generations. 5 Neither do we know the precife time of his birth, although by a paflage in his work, " De Laudibus Legum Anglias," it is poffible to get within three or four years of it. 1 Prince, Worthies of Devon. 2 Proceedings in Chancery, reign of Elizabeth, and from Richard II. to Richard III. 3 vols, folio. 1830. Vol. ii. p. xviii. See the whole deed at p. 46 ante. 3 There is befides a deed of 14 Henry VI., quoted in the Biog. Brit., vol. iii. 1986, which is a grant by Henry Fortefcue to John his brother, and to Ifabella, the wife of faid John, of all the meffu ages, lands, and tenements of John Fortefcue, father of faid Henry, in Overcombe, Effbrd, and Alfton, in the parifh of Hol- boughton, in Devonfhire. 4 Prince, Worthies of Devon. 5 p olC) Colle&ions for Devon, p. 300. Chancellor Fortefcue. ^ He there fays, in defcribing the degree of Serjeant-at-Law, 1 "Quare ad Statum et Gradum talem, id eft fervientis ad legem, nullus hucufque aiTumptus eft qui non in prasdicto generali legis ftudio fexdecim annos ad minus antea complevit," and in the chapter before he fays that the ftudents are, for the moft part, youths. Now, Fortefcue was made a Serjeant in Michaelmas Term, 1430, and confequently muft have become a ftudent of the law, at fooneft, in the year 1414, fo that if he was then eighteen years old, he was born in 1396, if twenty, as is perhaps more likely, then 1394 was the year of his birth. Bifhop Tanner fays that he was educated at Exeter College Oxford, and he was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn. 2 Of the manner of his life and ftudies we have no account, unlefs the defcription of law-ftudent life in his Treatife be taken from his own experience. In that cafe Fortefcue was one of an hundred or more young men, all " gentlemen by birth and fortune, fpending, at leaft, eight and twenty pounds a year each," 3 (an allowance equal, by Hallam's computation, to more than £'400), with a fervant to wait upon him, and joining in the ftudies and amufements thus detailed. " Both in the Inns of Court and Inns of Chancery is an academy where the ftudents learn finging and all kinds of mufic, dancing and other fuch accompli fhments (which are called Revels), as are fuited to their quality, and fuch as are ufually practifed at Court; out of term the greater part apply themfelves to the ftudy of the law. Upon feftival days, after the fervices of the church are over, they employ themfelves with ftudy of hiftory, facred and profane. There everything which is good and virtuous is to be learned ; all vice is difcouraged and banifhed, fo that knights, barons, and the greateft nobility of the kingdom often place their children in the Inns of Court, not fo much to make the laws their ftudy, as to form their manners, and to keep them from vice. Bickerings and difturbances are almoft unknown. The only punifhment is expulfion from the Society, more dreaded than imprifonment and irons by criminals, becaufe he who is turned out of one Society is never received into another ; thus there is conftant harmony, and the greateft friendfhip and freedom of convcrfation." This picture, although it may be fomewhat over-coloured, defcribes an education well calculated to develop fuch a character as that which throughout his career belonged to Sir John Fortefcue. In the year 1425, 4 Henry VI., he was made a Governor of Lincoln's Inn ; next year again, and a third time in 1429, 7 Henry VI. In the two firft entries ' in Dugdale's " Origines Judiciales" he appears as "Fortefcue Junior," which makes it probable that his elder brother, Sir Henry, was alfo a member of that Inn. Of his career, until he became a ferjeant, nothing is told, how foon or how late he 1 De Laudibus, Ed. Amos, p. 261, chap. 50. 2 Campbell, i. 371. Tanner, Bib. Hrit., London, 1748, p. 293. Biog. Brit., iii. 2087. 3 Hall am, Middle Ages, chap, ix., where he cftimates the value of money now at fixteen times that in the time of Henry VI. ' Dugdalc, Origines, p. 249 ; De Laudibus, chap. 50. 5 2 Chancellor Fortefcue. got into practice, by what means, or to what extent. It is likely that he took that degree foon after his {landing at the bar had qualified him for it, if we may judge by the number of years he lived afterwards, and the date of his promotion, in Michaelmas Term, 1430. 1 Of the particulars of an inveftiture with the White Silk Coif, the badge of his new rank, we have his own account : " The Lord Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas, by and with the advice and confent of all the Judges, is wont to pitch upon, as often as he fees fitting, feven or eight of the difcreeter perfons, fuch as have made the greateft proficiency in the general ftudy of the laws, and whom they judge beft qualified. At the time and place appointed, thofe who are fo chofen hold a fumptuous feaft, like that at a coronation, which is to continue for feven days together ; neither fhall any one of the new-created fergeants be at a lefs expenfe fuitable to the folemnity of his creation, than two hundred and fixty pounds and upwards, whereby the expenfes in the whole which the eight will be at will exceed three thoufand two hundred marks, to make up which, one article is, every one mall make prefents of gold rings, to the value, in the whole, of forty pounds (at the leaft) Englifh money." " I very well remember," he fays, " that when I took upon me the ftate and degree of a fergeant-at-law, my bill for gold rings came to fifty pounds." He then proceeds to tell us how this large fum, no lefs than eight hundred pounds of our prefent money, if we are to follow Hallam, was difpofed of. " Each fergeant at the time of his creation gives to every prince of the blood, to every duke, and to each archbifhop who fhall be prefent at the folemnity, to the Lord High Chancellor, and to the Treafurer of England, to each a ring of the value of twenty-fix fhillings and eightpence ; to every earl and bifhop, to the Keeper of the Privy Seal, to each Chief Juftice, to the Chief Baron of the King's Exchequer, a ring worth twenty (hil- lings ; and to every other lord of Parliament, to every abbot, and to every prelate of diftinc- tion, every worfhipful knight there and then prefent, to the Mafter of the Rolls, and to every juftice, a ring to the value of one mark ; to each Baron of the Exchequer, to the Chamberlain, and to all the great men at Court then in waiting on the King, rings of a lefs value in proportion to their rank and quality, fo that there will not be the meaneft clerk, efpecially in the Court of Common Pleas, but that he will receive a ring convenient for his degree. Befides, they ufually make prefents of rings received of their friends and acquaintance." " They give alfo liveries of cloth of the fame price and colour, which are diftributed in great quantities, not only to their menial fervants, but to feveral others, their friends and acquaintance, who attended at the ceremony of their creation." 1 Dugdale, Chron. Series, p. 61 ; Biographia Britannica (but Fofs, Lives of the Judges, vol. iv., gives Michaelmas, 1429, for the ferjeant's creation). The Year-Book may clear up this point. Chancellor Forte/cue. It is probable that Fortefcue's marriage took place during this period of his life. He certainly was a married man in the end of 1435 or ear ty m x 436,as appears by the Deed of 14 Henry VI. already referred to, when "Ifabella, wife of faid John," is mentioned ; and it is likely that he had then been fo for fome two or three years, for his only fon, Martin, who died in 1472, left at his death a fon and heir aged twelve years. Sir John's wife was Ifabella Jamyfs, daughter and heirefs of John Jamyfs, Efquire, of Philip's Norton, in Somerfet, on the borders of Wiltfhire, near Bath. In the " Patent Rolls " 1 of 21 Henry VI. is "an infpeximus and confirmation of a grant by the Prior of the Carthufian order of Hinton (Hinton-Charterhoufe) to John Fortefcue and Ifabella his wife, and Margery, mother of Ifabella, of mefluages in Philips Norton," the grant being dated the Tuefday after the feaft of St. Hilary, 19 Henry VI. (i.e. January 14th to 21ft, 1441, St. Hilary's day being on the 13th January), and the infpeximus bearing date Weftminfter, the 12th of February, 21 Hen. VI. (1443). The document recites that the faid Ifabella was the daughter of Margery, who was wife of John Jamyfs, of Philip's Norton. The eftate thus acquired remained in the Chancellor's family until it was fold in the year 1725 to Mr. Frip, by Hugh Fortefcue, Earl Clinton.- The Fortefcue arms may ftill be feen in ftone on a houfe in the village of Norton St. Philip's. 3 By the fame lady he acquired lands in Wilts.' Thus we read that "John Fortefcue, Knight, and Ifabella his wife granted by Deed, dated Nov'. 21, 35 Hen. VI. (1456), to Robert Brigge, the reverfion of a tenement at Bradford, Wilts." The ftatement made by feveral authors that the Chancellor's wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Myles Stapleton, is an error, that lady being the fecond wife of Sir John Fortefcue of Punfbourne, fo given in an Inquifition Poft-mortem taken at Royfton in Hertfordshire in July, 1 50 1, upon the death of the faid Sir John, who was nephew to the Chancellor, and died July 28, a. d. 1500. Elizabeth Stapleton was the widow of Sir William Calthorpe, Knight. 5 The ifllie of the marriage was an only fon, Martin, ftyled in fome documents Sir Martin, and at lead two daughters. Martin married, in 1454,° Elizabeth, daughter and heirefs of Richard Denzile, Efquire, of Wear-Giffard, who inherited that property as well as the eftates of Filleigh (now Caftle Hill) and Buckland-Filleigh. He died before his father. Sir John's 1 Patent Rolls, 21 Hen. VI., Pt. ii. No. 34. The entire document is given in the Appendix to this Chapter. 2 Letter to the Author from Karl Fortefcue, Nov. 6, 1 866. 3 Information from Mr. Jackfon, Librarian at Longleat, Auguft, 1866. 1 Notitiac and Pedigrees concerning the Family of the Fortefcues, Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 15,629* f. 62 h . 8 Inq. Poft-mortem, 16 Hen. VII., No. 3, Brit. Mus., and Notitisc and Pedigrees of Fortefcue Family, Brit. Mus. Add. MS., from Peter Ic Neve, (Norroy,) and Blomcfield's Norfolk, ix. 222. ed. 8vo. r ' The marriage fettlement, feen by the author of Stemmata Fortefcuana, is dated September 10, 33 Hen. VI. (1454)- 53 54 Chancellor Forte/cue. daughter, Elizabeth, was married, about 1456, 1 to Edmond, fon of Thomas Whalefburgh, Efquire, of the county of Cornwall. The other daughter, Maud, married Robert Corbet, fon of Sir Robert Corbet, a very- unfortunate alliance, as appears from what Blomefield, in his " Hiftory of Norfolk," thus relates : 2 — " Maud, daughter of Sir John Fortefcue, Lord Chief Juftice, who had the Lordfhip of Durham Parva in the 33rd of Henry the Sixth (a.d. 1455), married Robert, fon of Sir Robert Corbet. He forfook her, and re-married Lettice, daughter of John Shirewood of Coventry, and left iffue by this Lettice, Robert and Alice. His firft wife, Maude, from whom he was never divorced, furviving him, — upon his death Robert Corbet, Efquire, his brother, fecond fon of Sir Robert aforefaid, made an entry into his lands as next and legal heir ; but Lettice aforefaid having re-married Talboys, a fervant to Thomas Rotherham, Archbifhop of York and Chancellor of England, Roger fued him in the Spiritual Court of Canterbury, and Talboys procuring a prohibition, Roger appealed to Rome, and a fuit was directed by Archbifhop Rotherham to Roger of 'ne exeat regno. ' Upon this Roger was laid up in the Court two years, but being enlarged in the laft year of King Edward the Fourth (1483), died prefently after." " It appears that Maud, the firft wife of Robert, had a jointure of twenty marks per annum out of this manor. She retired, and lived in the Nunnery of Helvefton, in Bedford- fhire, and died there." After Fortefcue's promotion to be ferjeant the Year-Books are no longer filent concern- ing him, but make frequent mention of his arguments. His practice was large, and his knowledge of Englifh law confpicuous. He acted upon fome emergencies as Judge of Affize, in which capacity he went the Norfolk Circuit in 1440 and 1 44 1 (18 & 19 Hen. VI.). In the latter year, in Eafter Term, he was appointed a King's Serjeant; 3 and when the death of Sir John Hody made a vacancy in the Chief Jufticefhip, he, without having paffed through the intermediate ftep of a Junior Judge, was, on the 25th of January, 1442, (20 Hen. VI.), raifed to that high place. 4 Here his reputation as a great judge was foon and permanently eftablifhed, and here he continued for more than eighteen years to pronounce thofe judgments and expofitions of the laws which are ftill quoted with refpect. The late Lord Campbell, a great admirer of Fortefcue, fays of him that "he difcharged his duties as Chief Judge with extraordinary ability, and feems to have been one of the moft learned and upright men who ever fat in the Court of Queen's Bench ;" 5 and in another 1 Exchequer of Pleas, 34 Hen. VI. 2 Blomefield's Norfolk, vol. ix. p. 479 (8vo edition). 3 Dugdale, Chron. Series, p. 63. "Johannes Fortefcu ferviens Regis ad Legem. Pafch. 19 Hen. VI." 4 Dugdale, Chron. Series, p. 62. 5 Campbell, Lives of Chancellors, vol. i. p. 376. Chancellor Fortefcue. 55 place he calls him " one of the mod illuftrious of the Chief Juftices, for ever to be had in remembrance for his judicial integrity;" 1 and Fuller, in his " Worthies of England," join- ing him with Chief Juftice Markham, his immediate fucceflbr, fays: 2 "Thefe I may call two Chief Juftices of the Chief Juftices, for their fignal integrity ; for though the one of them favoured the Houfe of Lancafter, and the other the Houfe of York, in the titles to the Crown, both of them favoured the Houfe of Juftice in matters betwixt party and party." The Chief Juftice was knighted upon his appointment or foon after. I find him ftyled " Miles " firft in June, 1443. 3 We have to regret the almoft complete abfence of notices of his life during the eighteen or nineteen years of his Chief Jufticeftiip. None of his correspondence has come down to us, and his name occurs but feldom in the fcanty memorials of contemporary events not purely military, which have furvived the troublous times that enfued. The firft reference to him that I can find is in the Pafton Letters the year after his pro- motion, in a letter written by his defire to a brother Judge, Sir William Pafton : ' — " To my right worthy and worlhipful Lord, William Pafton, Juftice, in hafte. " Pleafe it your good Lordftiip to weet, that the Chief Juftice of the King's Bench re- commendeth him to you, and is right forry of the matter that is caufe of your none coming hither, but he will do all that he can or may for you. " He hath had a fciatica that hath letted him a great while to ride, and dare not yet come on none horfe's back, and therefore he hath fpoken to the Lords of the Council, and informed them of your ficknefs, and his alfo, that he may not ride at thefe next afllzes to Eaft Grin- ftead ; and though thofe aflizes difcontinue pur noun veno dez Jufticez, he hopeth to be excufed, and ye alfo. " And as for the remanent of the aftlzes, he {hall purvey to be there by water ; and Almighty Jefu make you heyle and ftrong. " Written right fimply, the Wednefday next tofore the Feaft of the Purification of our Lady, at London, " By your moft fimple fervant, " James Gresham.'' " London, Wednefday, "30th of January, 1443. 22 Hen. VI." 1 Campbell, Chief Juftices, vol. up, 141. 2 Fuller, Worthies, vol. ii. p. 571, article Markham (8vo. edition). 3 Will of John Cheddar, of Cheddar, in Dodfworth MS. 4 Pafton Letters: Letter VI. vol. iii. p. 27 ; Sir William Pafton, born in 1378, made a Judge of the Common Pleas in 1430, died in 1444 (fee Preface to Fenn's edition). * He appears to have been Sir John Fortcicuc's Secretary. 5 6 Chancellor Forte/cue. The abfence at that period of any carriage-road between London and the Affize town of one of the home counties is worthy of remark. All who were unable to walk, or to ride on horfeback, could only reach the Suffex coaft by a fea voyage ! In this year we find him fitting as a Councillor in "The Starred Chamber ' M on feveral occafions; and ferious tumults having occurred at Norwich on account of certain eccle- fiaftical exactions, a fpecial commiflion was ifiued to him and others in the month of March for the trial of the rioters. The event is thus noticed in the Proceedings of the Privy Council : 2 — "The Commons arofe, and would have aflaulted and fired the Priory, and have deftroyed the Prior of the place, &c. Whereupon the King fent thither the Chief Juftice John Fortefcue, the Earl of Stafford, and the Earl of Huntingdon ; and fitten then in Seflions, at the which were many of the City there indited, and the Prior alfo, and alfo the City loft their liberties, and franchifes, and freedoms that they had afore, and all the City feized into the King's hand .... And the Chief Judge Fortefcue and Weftbury Judge, declarenden all their demenyng at Norwich." In the Parliament held at Weftminfter in 1444 3 (23 Hen. VI.) on the 25th of February, Fortefcue was named as one of the " Triers of Petitions," thus : — "Ipfo domino Rege fede Regia in Camera depicta apud Weft r -, refidente. " Sont aflignez Triours des Petitions d'Engleterre, Irland, Gales et Ecoce. The Cardinal Archbifhop D'Everwyck, Duke of Gloucefter, Duke of Norfolk, Bifhops of London, Rochefter, Norwich, and Ely, the Marquis of Dorfet, Earls of Arundel and Oxford, the Prior of St. John of Jerusalem in England, the Abbots of St. Albon, of St. Auftin of Canterbury, and of Gloucefter, Le Sire Grey de Ruthyn, Le Sire de Dudley, Le Sire de Faulconberge, Le Sire John Fortefcu, and William Weftbury, et tiendront leur place en la Chambre du Chambellain, pres la Chambre du Peinte." He was re-appointed in each Parliament until that of July, 1455, inclufive. His conduct in the cafe of Thomas Kerver attracted notice at the time, 4 and deferves to be mentioned to his credit. Kerver had been imprifoned for fome offence in Wallingford Caftle, when the King pardoned him, and wifhed him to be releafed ; but Fortefcue, to whom the King fent his commands to ifTue his writ for the purpofe, confidered that he had no right or legal power to do fo, and refufed to comply. Bentley conjectures that this refufal arofe from his difapproval of the favour fhown to Kerver, or from doubts as to its legality, and admires his bold and upright behaviour. Henry had recourfe to his Chancellor, to whom he addrefTed this letter. 1 This Council mud not be confounded with the Court of Star Chamber, not then eftablifhed. 2 Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council, Nicholas, vol. v. cxxiv.-cxxv. &c. 3 Rolls of Parliament, vol. v. p. 66, &c. &c. 4 Bentley, Excerpta Hiftorica, folio 390. Chancellor Forte/cue. 57 Letter from Henry the sixth to the Chancellor, commanding him to ijfue his writ to the Conftable of Wallingford Caftle, to deliver 'Thomas Kerver from imprifonment. By the King. Right ReVend fader in god, Right trufty and Right welbeloved We grete you wel. And how be hit that we now late fent unto oure trufty and welbeloved Knight John ffortefcu oure chief Juftice charging hym to deliver oute of oure Caftel of Walyngford in our behalve Thomas Keruer, which by oure comaundement hath long tyme been in ward in ye prifon of oure faid Caftel, yet nathelefs ye faid John ffortefcu hath do us to undcr- ftande, that he hath no pouair fo to do in any wife, Wherfore we wolling for certain caufes and confideracons efpecially moeving us, the forfaid Thomas to be in brief tyme delived out of ye faid prifon without any firther delay, charge you yat ye do make oure writte in due fourme directed unto the Couneftable of our faid Caftel or his depute comaunding him ftraitly to deliver ye forfaid Thomas out of ye forfaid prifon, and to fouffre hym to goo at large. And yat ye faille not herof as we trufte you. Lating you wite yat it is oure ful wille yat ye ftial fo do. And we wol theefe our Ires to be unto you fouffifant warrant & difcharge in yat behalve. Yeven under our fignet at Pottern the XXV day of Aouft the yere of our Regne XXV. (a.d. 1447.) To the Right Reverend fader in god our Right trufty and Right welbeloved tharchbifhop of Cant' our Chauncellier of Englande. 1 In the fame year we find Fortefcue engaged in a cafe connected with his own county of Devon, relating to a difpute between the Mayor and the Bifhop of Exeter, as to the limits of their refpecYive jurifdicYions. 2 The quarrel was by the King referred for arbitration to the Chancellor, Kempe Archbiftiop of Canterbury, Chief Juftice Fortefcue, and Chief Juftice Newton. Fortefcue, who was at the time ftaying at Kxeter, and who was confidered by the Mayor "likely to have the great rule in this matter," received the following letter from the Chancellor to urge his action on the spot : — - ** The Chancellor to Chief Juftice Fortescue. 14 Worftiipfull and right wellbeloved Friend. I greet you well, and doubt not ye be well remembered of that matter which hath long timeabiden in traverfe betwixt my Brother of Exeter the Dean and Chapter, and the Mayor and the Commonalty of Excetre, wherin 1 Mifcellaneous Records in the Tower. 2 See Letters and Papers of John Shillingford, Mayor of Exeter, 1447-50, by Stuart A. Moore, in Camden Society's Publications, 1 87 l . I 58 Chancellor Fortefcue. ye for your part have had great labour : I pray you, confidering the matter is attained at large in the common law not likely by that mean to be ended lightly, as your wifdom knoweth well, you like at this time in your being there to move and induce my faid Brother and all parties to put the matter in entreaty at home, trufting as me feemeth fully with more charity and lefs coft the matter to take fooner end by that mean than by procefs or rigour of law, without your difpleafure. And almighty Jhefu have you in his keeping. Written," &c. &c. As the Mayor's own account of the tranfactions has come down to us, and as it gives us glimpfes of the Chancellor's mode of life, and of the manners of his time, a few extracts may be of intereft to his defendants. Writing from London on the 2nd of November, 1447, to the members of his Corporation, Shillingford fays, " I wrote to you that I had a day to appear before the Lords" (i. e., the three arbitrators), "for our matter the Friday next thereafter ; and for as much as my Lord Chancellor bade the Juftice (Fortefcue) to dinner againft that fame day for our matter, faying he mould have a dim of fait fifh : I hearing this, I did as me- thought ought to be done, and by advice of the Juftice, and of our Counfel I fent thither two ftately pickerells, and two ftately tenches, for the which my Lord Chancellor could right great thanks, and made right much thereof hardely ; for it came in good feafon, for my Lords the Duke of Bokyngham, the Markis of Southfolke and other Bifhops divers dined with the Lord Chancellor that day. But as touching the labour and fpeed of our matter that day, it was by my faid Lord adjourned over in to the morn Saterday for thefe caufes that a great difputation was before my Lord in his Chapel at Lambeth for preaching of Bifhops, and the faid Lords that fame Friday were there at dinner, and the Juftice came not there that day ; but the fame Friday after meat I was with the Juftice by long time, and in good leifure to commune of our matter. I find him a good man, and well-willed in our right, and like to have the great rule in the matter, as in the other letter, and he bade me move of fome good mean to end the matter and fo were on great arguments by long time, too long to write, all it was to tempt me with laughing cheer." Then follows an account of a meeting of the three arbitrators, adjourned from Sunday to Monday, becaufe that " Sunday the Chief Juftices Fortefcue and Newton dined with the Mayor of London." The Chancellor invites to dinner on the Monday the two Chief Juftices, after which feveral counfel employed on either fide are in attendance. " My Lord Chancellor therewith fuddenly went right to the Juftices brother, and called to him Nicholas Aysfheton at that time being there, and laid their four heddis nigh to gedder and communed to gedder right privily a great while. After that my Lord took his chair and the Juftices fat with him, and both parties with their counfel kneeled before." Another deliberation took place at the next Candlemas at Lambeth Palace, which the Mayor Chancellor Fortefcue. 59 of Exeter defcribes. Having knelt to the Chancellor- Archbifhop and offered his candle to " my Lord's blefied hond," I abode there to meet by his commandment. I met with my Lord at high table end coming to meatward. I went forth with him to the midft of the hall, he ftanding in his aftate againft the fire a great whiles, and two Bifhops, the two Chief Juftices, and other Lords, Knights and Squires, and other common people a great multitude, the hall full all (landing afar apart from him, I kneeling by him, and after recommendation I moved him of our matter fhortly, as time afked. Meat ydone my Lord took his chamber the eftates and others with him. I put me in prefs and to my Lord, and fpalce with him right a great while fo that he called the two Juftices to him, and moved of our matter. The Chief Juftice (Fortefcue) faid much thing for our part, and quit him a good man to us." He feems, indeed, to have been throughout favourable to the Mayor and Corporation of Exeter. We find fuch entries as thefe, " I fpake with the Chief Juftice Sir John Fortefcue, going with him homeward, and had with him right much good language, and words of comfort ;" and again, " and then they communded a great while, and my Lord Fortefcue faid many things as me thought, and once I heard him fay with a right glad fpirit, an my Lord Chancellor will be indifferent, we fhall have a good end I truft to Almighty God and our Lady." The matter in difpute was fettled by agreement before the end of the year 1448. There is a letter in the Pafton correspondence, 1 written between 1450 and 1454 by one T. Bocking to William Wayte, containing the following curious fentence : — " The Chief Juftice hath waited 2 to have been affaulted all this fev'night nightly in his houfe, but nothing come as yet, the more pity, &c. &c. An oyer and determiner goeth into Kent, and commiflloners my Lord the Duke of York, Bourchier, my mafter, that will not come then de proditionibus, &c. cVc, but Kent prayeth them to hang no man when they come." It would feem that the writer was, like his mafter, a follower of the York party, which may account for his favage language about Fortefcue the Lancaftrian. The editor of the Pafton Letters furmifes that the Commillion may have been to try fome of the pcrfons implicated in Cade's rebellion. In the year 1457, Sir John purchafed from Sir Robert Corbet the reverfion, after the deceafe of " Joyes, or 1 Jocofa,' late the wife of John Grevyle, FJquier," of the manor and appurtenances of Ebrington, or Ebberton, near Campden, in Gloucefterfhire, for the fum of one hundred and fifty-one pounds." 1 This eftate, forfeited by his attainder, was granted to Sir John Brug, who died feized of it in the 1 ith year of Edward IV., 4 147 1 or 1472, a 1 Pafton Letters, vol. iii. p. 1 35. 3 See the Relcafe. 3 "Waited" here means "expected." 1 Rudder's Gloucifterftiire, p. 434. 6o Chancellor Fortefcue. fhort time before its reftoration to the Chancellor, in whofe family it has ever fince continued, and is now the property of Earl Fortefcue. A copy of the releafe of the manor of Ebrington will be interefting, and is therefore given in full : — Releafe of Manor of Ebrington. 1 To alle men to whom this wrytyng fhal come, Rob' Corbet Knyght fende gretyng in oure Lord. For afmuch as I have folde to Sir John Fortefcu Knyght in fee fymple the reverfion of the Manour of Ebryghton in the Counteof Glouceftre with the apptenaunces, to be had after the deceffe of Joyes late the Wif of John Grevyle Efquier for cli. pounds to be payed to me in certayn fourme betwene us, accorded by reafon of which fale I have by my dede enrolled and fubfcribed with myne owne hande granted the fame reuerfion to the faid Sir John and other named with hym, to his vfe in fee by vertu of which the faid Joyes hath attourned to the faid Sir John ; and alfo I have delyuered to the fame Sir John alle the euidences which ever come to myne handes concernyng the faid Manour ; I woll and defire as well the forefaid Joyes, the Abbot of Wyncecombe, and alle other perfonnes in whos handes the faid Sir John or his heyres can wete or afpye any of the forfaid evydences to be kepte, to delyuer the fame evydences to ham, for the right and title of the reuerfion of the faid Manour is nowe clerely, trewly, and lawefully in the faid Sir John, his co-feofFees and theyre heyres, and from me and myne heyres for euer moore, and the faid Manour nor the reuerfion thereof, was neuer tayled to me nor none of myne aunceftres, but alway in us hathe be poflefled in fee fymple, as far as euer I coude knowe by any evydence or by any manner, fayyng by my trouthe. Wherfor I charge Rob' my fone, and myne heyre, his iffue, and alle thos that fhal be myne heyeres herafter, vpon my blefiyng, that they neuer vexe, implede, ne greve the forfaid Sir John, his faid cofeoffees, theyre heyres, nor aflignees, for the forfaid Manour ; and if they do, knowyng this my prohibicion I note wel they fhal haue the curfe of God, for theyre wronge and owr trouthe, and alfo they fhal haue my curfe, Witnyfyng this my wrytyng vnder my feale, and fubfcribed with myne owne hande, Wreten the v day of December, the yere of the reigne of Kyng Henry VI'° after the conquefte XXXV". (L.S.) Sir Roberd Corbet Knyth. An Inquifition 2 into Fortefcue's property, taken after the Act of Attainder, mows that he had acquired, befides Ebrington, eftates in Wiltfhire at Kingfton-Deverell, Ironbridge, and Chippenham, at fome period of his legal career. To thefe mull be added a portion of his father's eftate in South Devon, which he inherited at his death, between 1435 ar >d *437> defcribed in the Inquifition as Combe in Holbeton, Overcombe, Nethercombe, Effbrd, and Alftone. The falary attached to his Chief Juftice's place was granted to him by Patent, 3 bearing the fame date with his appointment, that is to fay, January 25th, 20 Hen. VI. (1442). It 1 Campbell, Lives of Chancellors, vol. i. p. 376. 2 See Inquifition at Amefbury, 7 Ed. IV. among Inq. Poft-mortem, Brit. Mus., and Appendix. 3 Patent Rolls, 20 Hen. VI. Membrane 10. Chancellor Fortefcue. 61 was 1 80 marks, equal to ^150 per annum, together with 106 millings, and 11 pence farthing, and one-eighth of a halfpenny, for a robe with fur trimming at Chriftmas, and fifty-fix millings and fixpence for a robe and its lining at Whitfuntide. Not many days later, namely, on the 6th of February, the King grants him by patent a Tun (dolium) of Wine annually for his life, to be given to him by the Chief Butler of England from the port of Briftol. 1 And a fecond yearly Tun was added by a New Patent of the 23rd of May, 1443, alfo for his life, in consideration " of the good fervice which the faid John Fortefcue performs and may hereafter perform for US." Thefe two Tuns 2 are fpecially exempted in the Act of Refumption of Grants, pafTed in the 34th Henry VI. (1455), by the following claufe : "Provided alfo that this Act of Refumption be not prejudicial, nor extend to the Grant which we have made by our Letters Patentes to John Fortefcu Knight, of two Tun of Wine to be taken yearly in the Port of London for the term of his life." An addition to his falary of forty marks per annum 3 was made in the year 1447 by a patent of the 22nd of March, which recites that this grant mall be for his life, and that its object is to enable him to keep up his ftate more becomingly, and to meet his expen- diture while in his office of Chief Juftice, and alfo that expenditure which it will be fitting that he mould make when he mall have ceafed to hold the faid office — a thoughtful precaution. The text of three of the four above-named Patents, which have come down to us, is given in the Appendix. In the year 1459 Fortefcue was prefent at Coventry during the fitting there of the Parliament, called together at that time chiefly for the purpofe of parting Acts of Attainder againft the Duke of York and his adherents. 4 Fortefcue continued to act as Chief Juftice until the dethronement of Henry, and the fuccefs of Edward made it impoffible for him to do fo longer. He remained long enough, 5 however, to have Yorkift partifans indicted before him, and was not actually fuperfeded until Sir John Markham was created by Edward IV. his Chief Juftice on the 13th of May, 1461," more than two months after the Battle of Towton, and after Edward's acceffion to the throne. Fortefcue, however, could not well have fat at Weftminfter later than the firft half of 1460, for the laft record of his appearance in the Year-Books is as having prefided in the Court of King's Bench in Eafter Term, 1460 (38th of Henry VI.), 7 although there were 1 Rymer, v. part i. p. 120. A Tun of Wine contains 63 gallons, or 84 dozen of quart bottles. 2 Rolls of Parliament, vol. v. p. 31 7. 3 Patent Roll, 25th Hen. VI. 4 Paflon Letters (ed. Gairdner), vol. i. p. 499. 4 Campbell's Chief Jufticcs, i. 141. 4 Dugdale, Orig. Chronica Scries, p. 66, claus. i. Ed. IV. 7 Fofs, Lives of Judges. 62 Chancellor Fortefcue. two or three cafes reported in the King's Bench or Exchequer Chamber in the three following Terms. 1 His legal career was now over for ever — not, as he foon proved, from any lofs of vigour of mind or body, but becaufe he had determined to follow the mattered fortunes of his Royal matter, and had taken his part as a Lancaftrian adherent. Henry, fet free from captivity by the defeat of the Yorkifts at St. Alban'son the 17th of February, 1461, had rejoined there his Queen and her forces, and retired with the army towards the Northern Counties where the ftrength of his party lay. Here Fortefcue accom- panied them, and not long after he had exchanged the dignified calm of a Judge's life for the tumult of the camp, he was found bravely fighting for the falling caufe on the 29th of March in the bloody battle of Palm-Sunday 2 between the villages of Towton and Saxton in Yorkfhire. Here, fays Holingfhed, "in a fairplain field," 3 Edward with 60,000 followers approached Henry with 48,000, " about nine of the clock in the morning. When each perceived the other they made a great fhout, and at the fame inftant there fell a fmall fleet or fnow, which, by the violence of the wind which blew againft them, was driven into the faces of King Henrie's armies, fo that their fight was fomewhat dimmed, and they fhot their fheafe- arrows all to lofs, for they came fhort of the Southern men by threefcore yards." In fpite of this bad beginning " the deadlie conflict continued ten hours in doubtful ftate of victorie, uncertainlie heaving and fetting on both fides. The battle was fore foughten, for hope of life was fet afide on either part, and taking of prifoners proclaimed a great offenfe, fo every man determined to vanquifh or die in the field; but in the end King Edward fo courageously comforted his men, that the other part was difcomfited and overcome, and fled to Tadcafter bridge to fave themfelves ; in the mid-way whither is a little brook called Cocke, not very broad but of a great deepenefTe, in which, what for hafte to efcape, and what for fear of their followers, a great number was drowned. It was even reported that men alive patted the river upon dead carcafTes, and that the great river of Wharfe whereinto that brook doth run, and all the water coming from Towton was coloured with blood. The chafe laftedall night and the next day, the Northern men often turning upon their purfuers to the great lofs of both fides, whofe total lofs is fet down at upwards of 36,000 flaine." From this great blow the Lancastrians never recovered ; Henry with Queen Margaret and the Prince fled to Berwick-upon-Tweed, and Fortefcue with them, as we learn from Leland, who writes that "King Henry, the Prince, the Queen, the Duke of Somerfet, Henry Duke of Exceftre, the Lord Roos, Sir John Fortefcue Chief Judge of England, and Tailboys Erie of Kyme, being at York and hearing of this, fled firft to Newcaftle and then to Berwick delivering it to the Scots." 4 1 Selden, Preface to De Laudibus, folio xlvi. note. 2 Rolls of Parliament, vol. v. p. 479. 3 Hoi. iii. 278. 4 Leland's Colle&anea, vol. ii. p. 499. Chancellor Fortefcue. 6 3 We find Fortefcue ftill on the Englifh fide of the border in the end of June, when, in attendance on King Henry, he was engaged in an encounter with the Yorkifts at Braunce- peth near Durham, and at Ryton near Newcaftle. Soon after thefe events he retired with Henry to Edinburgh. At this period of Fortefcue's career in which his appointment as Lord Chancellor to Henry VI. muft in one fenfe or another have taken place, we may ftop to confider what claims he has to be enrolled amongft thofe who de facto filled the office of Chancellor of England. That he was Chancellor to Henry during his exile is a fact which has not been difputed, but it is held by mod writers that he never was Chancellor within the realm of England — we mail fee how far this ftatement is accurately true. It muft, I think, be at once admitted that if Henry's legal power to appoint a high officer of State ceafed upon the proclamation of Edward as King of England, it is highly improbable that he ever received a valid appointment, for Henry was in the power of his enemies until the battle of St. Alban's on the 17th of February 146 1, and certainly could not until that day have fuperfeded George Neville who was up to that time nominally his Chancellor, although really under the Houfe of York, by the appointment of another perfon. There remained then only the fhort fpace of fifteen days to the 4th of March, p.iflcd in tumult and confufion, in which Fortefcue could have had the Seals before Henry's reign is generally held to have ceafed. There is no entry on the records concerning the Great Seal between Neville's creation on the 25th of July, 1460, and the 10th of March, 146 1, when he took the oaths to the new King.' There was, however, a period of above four months from the battle of St. Alban's, during which Henry was ftill in England and in pofleffion of fome, though but a fmall part, of his dominions ; for he is charged in the Ad of his Attainder with levying war in his own perfon againft Edward in Durham* on the 26th of June, 146 1, and here, as we have feen, Sir John Fortefcue was with him. It feems very likely that one of his firft acts upon regaining his freedom was to create a Chancellor, who by fealing his writs with the Great Seal could help to keep up the appearance of kingly power when but little of its fubftance remained to him ; and the very prefence in his retinue of the venerable and famous Lord Chief Juftice of England would in itfelf naturally fuggcft fuch an appointment. That Henry had a Great Seal after his expulfion we know from Queen Margaret's inftructions to Ormond in Portugal where it is exprclTly mentioned. Thus Fortefcue may well have been Henry's Chancellor in England, and while there was ftill fome part of the country which acknowledged his rule. This probability feems to have efcaped the notice of fome of his biographers, whofe views of his claim to rank as Chancellor I proceed to give. Campbell, Lives of Chancellors, i. 370. ; Rolls of Parliament, v. 478. 6 4 Chancellor Forte/cue. Spelman, in his lift of Chief Juftices, fays of him : " Notior in ore omnium nomine Cancellarii, quam Jufticiarii, diu tamen fundus eft hoc munere, illo vix aliquando. Con- ftitui enim videtur Cancellarius, non nifi a victo et exulante apud Scotos Rege Henrico fexto, nec referri igitur in archiva regia ejus inftitutio, fed cognofci maxime e libelli fui ipfius infcriptione." Gregor, in the Preface to his Edition of "De Laudibus," 1 writes: "As to the promotion of Sir John Fortefcue, there is no doubt but that he was Chancellor in fome fort. But when, or to what purpofe, whether even during the actual reign of Henry VI. or fo as to exercife his office in Weftminfter Hall, may be a queftion. He accompanied the King into Scotland, flayed with him and writ for his title there. There, or before in England, he might be made Chancellor, as Sir Edward Hyde was in Charles the Second's exile." The writer in the "Biographia Britannica " lays ftrefs upon the title of "Chief Judge of England," 2 given to Sir John in the pafTage from Leland quoted above, faying that " this plainly Ihews that he was only Chief Juftice when he attended his Mafter into Scotland," he, like others, affuming that the retreat to that country took place at once ; but adds, " as from the time that he left King Henry there he never faw him any more, there feems to be no room to doubt that he received the Great Seal from that King there as foon as it was known that George, Bilhop of Exeter, afterwards Archbiftiop of York, continued to bear the title, and execute the office of Lord Chancellor by the authority of King Edward." If this be correct, Fortefcue was for fome months Chancellor in England ; and the abfence of his name from the Roll of Chancellors is alfo accounted for. Lord Campbell, 3 who writes of him with veneration, " fufpects that he had only the titular office of Chancellor in partibus," but, neverthelefs, fays that he feels called on to include him in his feries of Englifti Chancellors ; while many of the older writers, as Bale, 4 copied by Pits, Fuller, 5 Pole, 6 and Tanner, 7 ftyle him Chancellor of England without any expreflions of doubt or qualification. Sir John remained in Scotland with Henry upon his retirement there from Berwick, the Scotch King having, either from pity for his misfortunes, or in return for Henry handing over to him that town, allowed him to take up his abode in Edinburgh, when he was lodged in the Grey Friars, 8 a residence which his love of folitude feledled. Here Margaret's energies were foon employed in trying to engage the King of France to interfere in behalf of his nephew, her hufband, and Ihe prepared to fail for that country 1 Fortefcue, De Laudibus, by Gregor, 1737, folio, Preface, p. xlvi. 2 Biog. Brit. Edition, 1750, vol. iii. p. 1990. See p. 62 of this vol. 4 Bale, Scriptores Mag. Brit. (8th century). 6 Pole, Collections for Devon. 8 Guthrie, Hift. Eng. vol. ii. p. 692. 3 Campbell, vol. i. p. 370. 6 Fuller, Worthies of England. 7 Tanner, Bibl. Brit. Hib. { fiamreJ/ci vJcdeJcue t&mA . Men . i /. &&cvrice£lc A L to tfu f/ip?i Titmice cf Krt/eJ. The above sketch, with the remarks beneath it, was communicated to (he Society of Antiquaries on the 21" December, 1709 , by the Hon ble Dairies Harrington. Chancellor Fortefcue. 65 with the Prince, but the death of Charles VII. at this time feems for the prefent to have flopped her, and, as the following letter mows, with good reafon : — Letter from Lord Hungerford and Sir Robert Whityngham to Queene Margaret. A la Reyne D'engleterre, Efcote, Madam, — Pleafe it yo r gode God we have fith our comyng hider writen to yo r Highnes thryes the laft we fent by Bruges to be fent to you by the firft vefTell that went into Scotland the oder two letters we fent from Depe the t'on by the Carvell in the whiche we came and the oder in a noder vefTell but madam all was oon thyng in fubftance of puttyng you in knolege of the Kyng your Uncles deth whom God afTovll and howe we ftade areft and doo yet, but on tuyfday next we truft and underftande we fhall up to the King yo r Cofyn germayn, his comyflaries at the firft of our tarrying toke all our letters and writyngs and bere theym up to the Kyng levying my Lord of Som'fet in kepyng atteCaftell of Arkcs and my felowe Whityngham and me, ffor we had faufF conduct in the Town of Depe where we ar yete. But on Tyyfday next we underftande that it pleafeth the faid Kyngs Highnes that we fhall come to hys p'fence and ar charged to bring us up Mons r . de Crefiell nowe Baillyf of Canfe and Mons r . de la Mot. Madam ferth you not but be of gode comfort and beware that ye aventure not your p'fon, ne my Lord the Prynce by the fee till ye have oder word from us in leffe than your p'fon cannot be fure there as ye ar, that extreme necefTite dryfe you thens and for God fake the Kyngs Highnes be advyfed the fayme, fFor as we be enformed Therll of March is into Wales by land and has fent his navy thider by fee, and Ma Dame thynketh verily we fhall not foner be delyvered but yt we woll come ftreght to you w'aut Deth take us by the wey, the which we truft he will not till we fee the Kyng and you peifTible ayene in your Reame, the which we befech God foon to fee and to fend you that your Highnes defireth. Writen at Depe the xxx" day of Auguft. (1461). Yo r true Subgettes and Liege men Ho NCERFORD, Whityngham. At the bottom of the copy of the Letter is added: — Thefe are the names of thofe men that ar in Scotland w' the Quene. The Kyng Henry is at Kirkhowbre w 1 four men and a childe. Quene Margaret is at Edenburgh and hir Son. The Lord Roos and his Son. K. 66 Chancellor Forte/cue. John Ormond Will'm Taylboys S r John Fortefcu S r Thomas Fyndern S r Edmund Hampden S r Henry Roos John Courtney Myrfyn of Kent Waynesford of London Tho s Thompfon of Guynes Tho s Brampton of Guynes John Audeley of Guynes 1 Henry meanwhile continued in Scotland, the Chancellor employing his leifure in com- pofing thofe " wrytings fent out of Scotteland," which he was deftined afterwards to explain or refute to King Edward's fatisfadtion. He tells us that he was " Chief Councillor to the King in Scotland, and therefore muft have had much to fay to the various negotiations for his matter's reftoration, carried on with his party in England, as well as with foreign Potentates. In November of this year Edward IV. called his firft Parliament at Weftminfter. Both Houfes, entirely fubmiflive to the new King, who indeed left them no liberty to oppofe him, declared the three laft Sovereigns no better than ufurpers, 2 and, having annulled many of their acls, proceeded to pafs a moft fweeping Act of Attainder againft Henry VI. his Queen, and his Son, the Dukes of Somerfet and Exeter, with 148 Lords, Knights, Priefts, and Efquires ; 3 among thefe was Sir John Fortefcue. The ads of treafon with which he is charged are the Battle of Towton, on the 29th of March, and the riling or lkirmifhes at Brauncepeth and Ryton on the 26th of June. Here are the fentences which affect him : — "And where alfo Henry Duke of Exceftre, Henry Duke of Somerfet . . . John Fortefcue, Knight (with many befides), on Sunday, called comynly Palm Sunday, the xxixth day of Marche the firft yere of his reigne, in a field bitwene the townes of Shirbourne in Elmett, and Tadcaft r , in the faid Shire of York, accompanyed with the Frenfhmen and Scotts the Kynge's ennemyes, falfely and traitoroufly ayenft their feith and Liegeaunce, then vexed werre ayenft the fame Kyng Edward, their rightwife true and naturall leige Lord, purpofyng there and then to have deftroyed hym, and depofed hym of his Roiall Coroune and Dignite ; Langheyn of Irland Thomas Philip of Ipfwich Danfon Tho s Burnby Borret of Suflex S r John Welpdalle M r Roger Clerk of London John Retford late Coubitt Giles Senctlowe John Hawt 1 Fenn, Paflon Letters, vol. i. p. 246. 2 Statutes at Large, vol. i. l Ed. IV. cap. i. 3 Rolls of Parliament, vol. v. p. 463. Chancellor Fortefcue. 67 and then and there to that intent, falfely and traiteroufly moved bataille ayenft his feyd aftate fhedying therin the blode of a grete number of hys Subjetts." . . . " And over that, when the faid Henry late called Kyng of Englond the Sixth, and alfo Thomas Lord Roos, Thomas Gray, Lorde Rugemonde Grey, Humfrey Dacre, Knyght, John Fortefcu Knyght, William Taillboys Knyght, Edmund Mountford Knyght, Thomas Neville late of Brauncepath in the Bifoprycke of Durham Clerk, Humfrey late of the fame Squier, and Thomas Elwythe late of Caleys Squier, the xxvi day of June laft part, at Ryton and Brauncepath in the Bifoprycke of Durham with ftandards and gyturons unrolled, vexed werre ayenft oure feid Lord Kyng Edward, purpofyng to have depofed hym of his Roiall Aftate, Coroune, and Dignite, ayenft their feith and Liegeaunce, &c. &c. " It be declared and adjuged by th' aftent and advis of the Lords Spiielx, and Temporelx, and Commyns, beyng in this prefent Parlament, and by auctorite of the fame, that they [here the names are recited again, including Sir John Fortefcue Knyght] for their traitorefte offences and tranfgreflions afore declared, committed and doon ayenft the feid Aftate Coroune and Dignite of oure feid Soverayne Lord Kyng Edward the fourth, ftand and be convycted of high treafon, and forfeit all the Caftelles, Maners, Londes, Lordftiips, Tentes, Rentes, Services, Fees, Advoufons, Hereditaments, and PofTeflions, with their appurtenances, which they or any of theym had, of eftate of enheritauncc, or eny other to their or any of their ufe hadde, the feide fourth day of March, within Englond, Irlond or Wales, or Caleys, or in the Marches thereof." 1 The eftates which the Chancellor loft by his attainder were foon after granted to adhe- rents of the conquering party, his manor of Ebrington being given, as before mentioned, to Sir John Burg, 2 and other lands to John Lord Wedlock,'' 1 a zealous Yorkift. It was not until the fpring of the next year that Margaret went to France. She failed from Kirkcudbright in April, 1462, 1 with four ftiips and a fmall attendance, landing in Brittany, where the Duke gave her an honourable reception, 5 and twelve thoufand crowns. She then proceeded to her father's Duchy of Anjou," and finally to the Court of Louis XI. at Chinon. The new King was not warm in his fupport of his kinfwoman's caufe, but was at laft prevailed on by her entreaties, and by the offer of Calais as a fccurity, to lend her twenty thoufand crowns, and to allow Pierre Breze, the Senefchal of Normandy, to follow her fortunes with two thoufand men. After a ftayof feveral months Margaret failed from France, and after many adventures on the coaft of Northumberland, where fhe landed fome troops who were forced by the Englifti 1 Rolls of Parliament, v. 478. 2 Atkyn's GlouccfUrihire, p. 425; fee Biog. Brit. p. 1994. 3 Rolls of Parliament, v. 581 . 4 William of WyrccuYr's Chronicle, a.d. 1462. 8 Lingard, v. 176. • Guthrie, Hid. of England. 68 Chancellor Forte/cue. to re-embark with great lofs, Ihe with the remains of the expedition reached Berwick. Here Henry and the Prince joined her from Edinburgh, and a defcent upon England was organized, when Bamborough, Alnwick, and other ftrong places fell into the hands of the Lancaftrians, 1 who were joined by the Duke of Somerfet and Ralph Percy, and by many of the inhabitants of thofe parts. But when the Earl of Warwick arrived in the North with twenty thoufand men, and King Edward with as many befides, the iffue of the ftruggle was no longer doubtful ; and on the 17th of May, 1464, the Lancaftrians were totally and finally defeated at Hexham, Henry himfelf efcaping with difficulty. He fled once more to Scot- land; 2 but, after a time, urged, no doubt, to leave that country by the Scotch King, who had made terms with Edward IV., he went into Lancashire and Weftmoreland, where the people were attached to his caufe and kept him hid ; but being at laft difcovered, he was taken prifoner in June, 1465, and committed to the Tower, where he remained for feven years. It would appear that Margaret and the Prince took refuge in the ftrong fortrefs of Bam- borough Caftle, ftill in the hands of their party. Fortefcue, who had accompanied the Royal party in this campaign, was now finally parted from his unfortunate mafter. He remained with the Queen and Prince at Bamborough ; and when it was determined that they mould proceed to the Continent, he refolved to attend them, and after a ftiort delay embarked in their company at Bamborough, with fome other perfons of note. Their names are preferved by William of Worcefter, viz. : — The Duke of Exeter, 3 Sir John Fortefcue, Sir Edmund Mundeforde, Sir Edward Hampden, Sir Henry Roos, Sir Thomas Ormonde, Sir Robert Whytyngham, Doctor John Morton, Doctor Robert Makerel. With many befides of lower degree, whofe names are not recorded, to the number of two hundred perfons. They landed at Sluys, in Flanders, then part of the dominions of the Duke of Burgundy, and were hofpitably received by the Count of Charolois, his eldeft fon, who took the Queen to Bruges, providing for the wants of the party with great liberality, and afterwards led them to his father's court at Lifle, where they remained for fome time, the Duke giving a thoufand crowns for their maintenance. They poflibly, however, outftayed their welcome, for Rapin relates from Philip de Comines, that the Royal exiles here endured 1 Holinftied (4to.), vol. iii. p. 282. 3 William of Wyrcefter's Chronicle. Rapin. Chancellor Fortefcue. 6 9 great mifery, and that the Duke of Exeter, before his rank was known, was feen by De Comines following the Duke of Burgundy's carriage barefoot. 1 The next journey was to Lorraine, where Margaret's father, Rene of Anjou, titular King of Jerufalem and Sicily, was Duke. This Prince, who had inherited from his father the adjoining duchy of Bar, fucceeded to that of Lorraine in right of his mother, Ifabella, only daughter of the former Duke. He received his daughter and grandfon with kindnefs, and gave them and their followers a retreat in Barrois, or Berry, as the old authors write it. The place afligned to them was St. Mighel, or St. Mihiel, a fmall town on the right bank of the Meufe, which there flows through a narrow valley fhut in by high hills; the Englifh exiles were lodged in the fortrefs. It was probably at this time that Fortefcue, defiring to forward Henry's caufe, made the journey to Paris to which he prefently alludes; we know, however, that before the end of the year he was fettled at St. Mighel. A letter from him to the Earl of Ormond in Portugal is extant in the Imperial Library in Paris, which will be read with intereft, as mowing the ftraits and poverty to which he was reduced. It is very illuftrative of the times and circum- ftances ; as are the inftructions which he drew up at the fame time for the Earl's guidance, and the high-founding Latin of the letter which he compofed for the Prince to the King of Portugal. Not lefs fo is the note of the former to Lord Ormond, " written with his own hand " when he could not have been more than eleven years old, the date of his birth being the 13th of October, 1453. 2 I am not aware that any of thefe documents here given have been publifhcd before; they are from the Baluze collection. Letter of Edward, Prince of Wales, Jon of Henry VI., to the King of Portugal, a/king him to affift in the reftoration of King Henry to the throne of England. Dated 13 December. Serenissime princeps. Poft debitas recommendationes veltrique incolumitatem optaram. Cum plurimos geftis inclitis elucentes viros tacita mcnte perfcrutor, hos maxime qui virtutem et gloriam aflequuti percelebri laude fupra fidera effcruntur, nullos clariores, nullos majori gloria apud mortales adornatos comperio his quos zelus, neceMitudo, patria, caritas, ad gefta magnifica advocavit. Hos enim non ignis, non enfis, non gladius, non ipfa mors humani terror generis abfterrebat, nec quicquam arduum erat quod eis pro reipublica- augmcnto ac Rapin, i. 600. - Lingard. 7° Chancellor Forte/cue. defenfione durum aut difficile videbatur. Maximum itaque decus fe putabant adeptos, cum ob virtutem maximum aliquid aggrederentur. In vobis igitur, illuftriffime princeps, optima mihi repofita fpes eft, qui juftitia, prudentia, fortitudine, temperantia, magnanimitate, ac omni tandem virtute et gloria, adeo polletis, ut nulli nunc orbe principum humanitate fe- cundus videamini, ficque polletis uti cum vires hauferim et in viriles evaferim annos, caeteros inter mundi principes veftri fimilem fore in re militari, probitate, et gloria fumme exoptem. Hifque veftris virtutibus prasclariflimis fumme congratulor, eoque magis jocundius atque feftivius quo ex inclitiflima domo Lancaftriae fama per mundum et fuper asthera nota pro- diiftis, cujus jam ulcifci injurias horum eft qui ab ea procefTerunt. Topirum laudibus excelfis ac nunquam in asvum morituris extollebat antiquitas, ardua atque maxima paflum, ut vi gladii Babylonios rebellantes fubditos regi fuo faceret ; injuriam enim a fubditis regi faclam fibi etiam factam aebat, adque jus regum et decus pertinere contra tyrannos fefe invicem totis viribus confolari, defendere, adjuvare. Romani infuper, dum nobilitate ac militari gloria per orbem floruere, tunc maximum decus fe adepturos rati funt cum regiones, provincias, civitates, cum propinquos fanguine, amicos, reges, aut principes injuria laceflitos omni conatu etiam ad extremum fanguinem defenderent. Namque jufticiae non modica portio eft injuriam proximo illatam, ac longe fortius fanguini proprio, propulfare. Id ferme non modo pofitiva aut civium politica lex, Ted ipfa natura fuadet atque jubet ; hoc ipfos quafi frequentibus ftimulis contra tyrannos contraque rebelles ad enfem, ad lanceam, ad omnia denique armorum genera viribus totis urgebat. Quorfum hasc cum vos ipfe fitis, inclitiffime princeps, quern non minori laude quam Scipiones ipfos, Fabios, quam Fabricium, quam Achillem, quam Heclorem, aut Herculem ipfum, admirando animi robore linguae pasne cunctorum indefefle glorificant. Id a tanto Principe ferendum non aeftimo ut regius domini ac patris mei flatus fplendorque Lancaftrie domus, cujus ipfe columna eftis, tyrannorum rebelliumque malitia obfcuras ad tenebras excidat, cujus ante hac fama praefulgens per orbis refplenduit climata. Meminifle igitur vos regii ftatus, meminifle domus et fanguinis, meminiffe ligae ab olim contradlae velim, ut jus ac regale decus ad laefi regis defenfionem, ad domus et fanguinis tuitionem natura, amicitias vero vinculum tales inter principes ab antiquo contracte inconvulfe fervandum lex ipfa atque rei publicas zelus commoveat. Parcite, precor, ft importunus videar ; nam res patris agitur, res filii agitur, et omnium principum res ac caufa agitur ; fanguinis etiam ipfa conjunctio me magis his, licet primis meis litteris, audacem facit. Si quid igitur harum con- templatione agere hac juventute mea velitis, cum ad annos pervenerim fixum vobis ac folidum poftfuturis temporibus in omni re veftra confanguineum, et fi fic placeat, fine fuco amicum comparabitis. De injuriis vero domino ac patri meo illatis latior eflem nifique confanguineus meus, comes Ormundiae, qui jam vobifcum eft, omnia dicet, quae certe talia funt ut neminem hominum arbitror quern non ad larga lacrimarum flumina commoverent. Pro ipfa autem ampliffima humanitate veftra quam fibi, necnon magiftro Rogero, confilii domini mei clerico benemerito, feciftis, quantas poftum immo infinitas gratias et do et efFero, poftea, duce Chrifto, Chancellor Fortefcue. 7 1 fecundis temporibus daturus ampliores, qui vos feliciter ac diu regnare faciat ad nominis veftri decus fempiternum. Ex Sancto Michaeli in Barro, tercio decimo Decembris. Wallias 1 princeps vefter ad vota paratiflimus confanguineus Edwardus. Letter from Sir John Fortescue to the Earl of Ormond, containing direclions how to -proceed in his mijfion into Portugal, to obtain affifiance for Henry VI, at that time dethroned by Edward IV. Ryghte worfhipfulle and myne efpecially belovyde lord, I recommaunde me to you ; and it is fo that in the fefte of the Concepcioune of our Lady I refceyvide, at Seynte Mighal in Barroys, frome you a lettre writyne at Porte in Portingale, on Monday nexte before the fefte of Seynte Mighel, to my righte finguler comfort, God knowith. Of which lettre the quentr, my lord prince, and alle theire fervantes were fulle gladde, and namely of youre welfare and efcapynge the power of youre ennymyes. And it is fo that the quene nowe defirethe you to do certayne meflage frome here to the kynge of Portyngale, of whiche ye moure clercly underftande here entente by an inftruclione, and alfo by here lettres, which here highnefle now fendithe to you by the berer hereof. Wherfore I write nowe nothynge to you of tho materes. And as touchynge the fauf conducle whiche ye defire to have of the kynge of Fraunce, it were gode that ye hadde it. And yet yf his hyghnefle do to us nothynge but righte, the queues ccrtificat, whiche we fende to you herewith, fhulle be to you fwerte fufficiant. Noe- thelefle I counfeille you not to trufte fermely theruppone, and therby to aventure you to pafle thorghe his lande, for he hathe made many appoyntements withe our rebelles, by whiche it femythe he hathe not alwey entended to kepe the peace and triwes whiche he made withe us ; but yet I knawe no caufe that he hathe to breake hit, nor hetherto he hathe not takene nor imprifoned any mane of oure partie by any foche occafione. And Thomas Scales hathe fente me worde that he hopithe to mowe getc, by the meanes of my lord Senyfchalle, a fauf conducle for you. And elles my lord of Kcndale canne fynde the meanes howe ye mowe pafle foche parties of Gyane, Langdok, and other, whereas moft juperte is, as ye fhulle be in no perille. My lord of Somerfet that now is and his brother come frome Britayne by Parys thorghe Fraunce unto the quene withe vj. horfes, and no maim refonyd ham in there way. And fo didde I from Parys into Barroys; but yet this is no verrey furety to you. Wherfore your aune wyfdome moft gyde you in this cafe, not truftynge myne advife, that 1 The concluding part of this letter is in the bold but unformed writing of the prince. The fcal is extant. There is no addrel's, but on the back is written " Pro principe." concerning which, fee the next letter. The paper is ftrong, thick, and highly glazed. No water-mark is vilible, but the wire-marks of its fabric are clearly perceptible. y Z Chancellor Forte/cue. knawe not the maner of this contrey as ye do ; but yet I wote welle that a bille figned with my lorde Senyfchalle is hande mall be fufficiant unto you to pafle thorghe oute alle Fraunce. My lord, herebuthe withe the quene the dukes of Exceftre and Somerfet, and his brother, whiche, and alfo fir Johne Courtenay, buth defcended of the houfe of Lancaftre. Alfo here buthe my lord Prive Seal, mafter Johne Mortone, the bifThope of Seynte AfTe, fire Edmond Mountford, fir Henry Roos, fir Edmond Hampdene, fir William Vaux, fir Robert Whit- yngham, and I, knyghtes, my maifter youre brother, William Grymmefby, William Jofepe, fquiers for the body, and many other worfhipfulle fquiers, and alfo clerkes. We buthe alle in grete poverte, but yet the quene fufteynethe us in mete and drinke, fo as we buthe not in extreme neceflite. Here highnefle may do no more to us thanne me dothe. Wherfore I counfeille you to fpend fparely foche money as ye have, for whanne ye come hether ye fhulle have nede of hit. And alfo here buthe maney that nede, and wolle defire to parte with you of youre aune money ; and in all this contray is no manne that wolle or may lene you any money, have ye never fo grete nede. We have here none other tythinges but foche as buthe in your inftruccione. Ji Item, yf ye fynde the kynge of Portingale entretable in clofe materes, fparithe not to tarie longe withe hym. And yf ye fynde him alle eftraunge, difpendithe not your money in that contrey in idilce ; for after that ye came hithere, hit is like that ye fhulle be putte to grete coftes fone uppone, and peradventure not long tarie here. Item, my lord Prince fendithe to you nowe a lettre writyne withe his awne hande, and another lettre directed to the kynge of Portyngale, of whiche I fende nowe to you the double enclofyd hereyn. I write at Seynt Mighel in Barroys, the xiij. daye of Decembre. Your fervant, J. Fortescue. 1 My lord, by caufe we knew not verrely the kynge of Portingale is name, the quene is lettre hathe no fuperfcripcione, nor the lettre fro my lord Prince ; but ye moure knowe ham alfo welle by the feales as by this, that in the fyde where the feal is fette of the quenes letter is writyne thife wordes, " Pro Regina," and in like wyfe in my lordes lettre is writyne, " Pro Principe." And I fende to you hereyn foche wordes of fuperfcripcion as ye fhalle fette uppone bothe lettres, whiche wordes buthe writyn withe the hande of the clerke that hath writyne bothe lettres. Item, the berer hereof had of us but iij. fcutes for alle his coftes towardes you, by caufe wee hadde no more money. (Dorfo.) To the righte worfhipfulle and my fingulerly belovide lorde, the Erie of Ormonde. 1 " Your fervant, J. Forte/cue," is in the autograph of Sir John. The feal given above is that which he commonly ufed. Autograph Signature of Sir John. Portescue Chancellor of the Exchequer to Queen Elizateth, attached to his letter to the Earl of Ormonde, in the Tmpl. Lib. Paris. Chancellor Fortefcue. 73 Instructions given by Queen Margaret to the Earl of Ormond, refpecling his mifflon to Portugal to obtain ajji fiance for the reft oration of Henry the Sixth. Here folowithe an inflruccione made by the §)uene of Englande unto the erle of Ormonde and to mai/ier Roger Tonge, clerke of the kynges counfeille of Englande, for the expedicione of foche materes as the ^uene deftrethe to be fpedde at this tyme for the kynge her hu/band withe the kynge of Portyngale here mofi dere cofyne. First, that they thanke the kyng, here faide coufyne, of the favoure and gode wille whiche he hathe alway borne and fliewyd to the kynge here hufbande ; and namely in this now, his grete trouble and hers. And in fpecialle, of the grete favoure whiche he fhewyde unto William Jofej>, fquier for the kynges body, in his late beynge withe hym by here com- maundement for the kynges materes, and pray hym of like contynuaunce. Item, that they lete here faide coufyne clerely underftonde that (ibleffed be Almyghty God,) the kyng here hufband is in gode hele, out of the handes of his rebelles, and in fewerte of his perfone, as here highnefle hadde late writynge frome him, enfealed with his fignet and fignyde with his owne hand, whiche is ounedoutedly knawene to here felfe and to alle here counfeille. Item, the quene wille that the faide erle and clerke faye unto the faide kynge here coufyne howe that the kynge here hufbande and alfo here felfe have a fulle, finguler, and ferme trufte uppone the gode wille, frenmipe and ayde of hym in this theire gretteft and extreme neceflite ; confiderynge not onely the nyghneffe of theire blode, and that they, bothe kynges, buthe defcended of the houfe of Lancaftre, whiche alway hathe bene rennomyde of finguler kyndeneffe, faythe and ftabilneffe, but alfo the longe contynewyd amvtee, peace, and gode wille, whiche have be betwene the fame kynges and theire reaumes. And moft the quene hathe in here mynde of howe grete nobleffc, wyfdome, and prueffe here faide coufyn of Portingale is nowe namyd and knowenc through oute the worlde, and therfore amonge other caufes chofyn and made by the faide kynge here hufband, while he was in profperite, and by the hole chapiter of the ordre of the Garter, a knyghte of the fame ordre, by whiche confideracione fhe hathe noo litelle trufte of the ayde of the faide kynge here coufyne; but moft by confidcracion that he is a Chriftian kynge, and the wronge whiche nowe is done to the kynge here hufband by his oune fubgettes and liegemen is an injurie and difhonoure to alle kynges, and mater of boldeneffe to alle fubjeclcs for to rebelle aycn theire fovereyne lordes, to the perille and unfiwerte of alle princeffe, yf it be not ponysfhed. And as a wronge done to a man of the Chirche whanne it fownvthe to the difhonoure or perille of the remenant of the Chirche is, and fo aughte be, takyne as a thynge harmefulle to alle the Chirche, and in like wyfe done knyghtes whanne any thynge is done to the difhonoure of knyghtehode, and wymmen, whanne any thynge is done to the difhonoure of wymmenhode, moche more aughte every kynge make hym felfe partie whanne any thynge is done to the difhonoure or perille of the religione and eftate of kynges. L 74 Chancellor Forte/cue. Item, that they lete here faide coufyn underftande howe that the more partye of the people of England, and namely the beft difpofede men of the fame, kepyne truwely and fermely theire faithe and love to the kynge here hufband, and fayne wolde fhewe ham felfe foche, but they dar not do fo as well for fere of tyrannie and mordre whiche fhuld de done uppon ham as by caufe they have no grete lorde to be theire capitayne that wille and darre fhewe hym felfe foche and kepe the fylde, while the kynges welle difpofede people myghte be affemblede and come unto hym. Wherfore it fhalle nede that the quene gate fome notable and manly prince, or other capitayne, accompanied with iij. m e . menne at the left welle garnyslhed withe habilymentes of werre, whiche myghte take and kepe a fylde in foche parties of England as the quene's counfeille knowithe befte difpofede to this cafe, into the tyme the people myghte by boldneffe of ham fhewe ham felfe and come unto ham. Whiche and hit were done they fhulde be in myght sufficiant ; namely, yf thanne the kynge were withe ham in perfone, for by comfort of his prefance they fhulde fone be grete in nombre, and his rebelles fore ferde to come agayne hym. And foche as fhulde be broughte thereto by his rebelles wolde thanne be fayne to come ynne to him, and have his grace, levynge the fame rebelles partie or turnynge uppone ham, as is moft like. And as the quene is faythfully informede, the moft partie of the comyne that buthe nowe ladde by the world fayne do. Wherfor yf the kynge, here faide coufyn, myghte be entretede to helpe the kynge here hufband in this cafe withe a capitayne and the nombre of iij. m e . men, here counfeille feethe clerly that the kynge here hufband fhuld thereby be furely broughte into his reaume and fette in refte in the fame, and that thenne by that meane the kynge of Portingale myght have at his neceffite at his oune wille the hole myghte of England to refifte and chaftife his ennemyes, and to defende and helpe his frendes, and fo in alle his nedes have the hole myghte of bothe reaumes. Item, the Chaunceller of England and other perfones, whiche buthe nowe in thife parties have fufficiaunt auftorite and power under the kynges grete feal to bynde the reaume of England, and alle other of the kynges poffeffions and lordfhippes, for the repayment of alle fuche coftes and expenfes as fhalle be done for the kynges caufe in this cafe. And wolle be alwey redy to make the fureties thereof, whenne fo ever hit fhalle be thoughte unto the queene neceffarie that they fo do. Item, yf the faide erle and clerke fynde the kynge of Portingale lovynge and tender to the kynges partie, and of gode hele to helpe hym in his quarelle, thanne they mowe defire the fame kynge to write to the Emperoure and to the Empereffe his fufter, whiche alfo is difcended of the houfe of Lancaftre, to fhewe theire favoures and gode wille to the faide quarelle, and to helpe in that they maye, that the Pope and the collage of Cardinales do the fame. And in like fourme that the fame kynge of Portingale write to my lord Charles, whiche alfo is difcended of the fame houfe, commendynge hym of his perfeverant kyndneffe Chancellor Fortefcue. 75 whiche, after the nature of that houfe, he fhewithe to the kynge his coufyne 1 of Englande in his grete trouble, and praye hym of contynuaunce, letyng hym wete that he wolle do the fame. Item, fithen the kynge of Spayne hathe weddede another fufter to the kynge of Portin- gale, he maye the better be entretede that he allie hym not withe the kynges rebelles, but be welle willede to the kynges partie, and that we mowe have free paflage throughe his reaume. And yf he wolde take oure partie, we myghte thanne be myghty ynowe bothe by fee and by lande, and he therby have with us a perpetualle peace, and thanne have alle oure myghte ayene his ennemyes, whiche fhulde be the gretteft gode that of many yeres hathe comyne to his reaume ; and, namely, for the merchandifes and fhippes of the fame. And thefe ij. kynges myght peradventure caufe us, and theyme felfe by the means of us, to make and have a perpetualle peace withe the reaume of Fraunce. Item, the kynge of Portingale may fone fynde the meanes howe alle foche cardinales of his reaume and of Spayne, as buthe in the courte, mowe be made frendely to oure partie. Margaret. (Dorfo.) To my lord of Ormonde. Holograph Letter of Edward Prince of Wales, fon of Henry VI., to the Earl of Ormond, upon his miffion into Portugal, to obtain afftflance for the reftoration of King Henry. Cousin Ormond, I grete yow hertly welle, acerteynyng yow that I have herd rythe gode and honorabele report of your fad, wife and manly gyding agcynft my lordis rebellis and your adverfaries, in the witche ye have purcheafed unto yow perpetually lawd and worftYip. And I thanke God, and fo do ye allfo, that ye at alle tymes under His proteccione have efcaped the cruelle malife of your fayd adverfaries. And for afmotch as I underftand that ye ar nowe in Portingale, I pray yow to put yow in the uttremoft of your devoir to labore unto the kyng of the fayd royalme for the forder- ance and fetyng forthe of my lord in the recuvering of his ryght and fubduing of his rebellis. Wherin yf ye fo do, as I have for undowted that ye wyll, I truft fume frute (halle folue, with Godis mercy, witche fpede yow well in alle your workes. Writen at Seynt Mychacl in Barr, w' myn awn hand, that ye mey fe how gode wrytare I am. Edward. (Dorfo.) To my cofyn the Erie of Ormonde. ' Henry III. married, in 1388, Catherine daughter of the Duke of Lancafter. 7 6 Chancellor Forte/cue. The letter from Margaret to King Alfonzo, mentioned by Fortefcue, has not been preferved. The King of Portugal at this time, whofe name was not known to Fortefcue, was Alfonzo V., his grandmother was Philippa daughter to John of Gaunt the Duke of Lancafter, 1 who married Joam I. of Portugal in 1403. The Emperor of Germany was Frederick III., married to Eleonora daughter of King Edward of Portugal. The King of Spain was Henry IV., married to a Portuguefe Infanta ; he was alfo related to Henry VI. of England in the fame degree as his wife, his grandmother being Catherine another daughter of the Duke of Lancafter. The Earl of Ormond above mentioned was John, the fixth of that title ; he was prefent with his elder brother, James fifth Earl of Ormond and Earl of Wiltlhire at the battle of Towton, and now in confequence attainted; he fucceeded nominally to his brother's Earldom of Ormond upon the beheading of the latter by the Yorkifts at Newcaftle (May 1, 1461), and forthwith fled to Portugal. We find Fortefcue, after a ftay of fome months at St. Mighel, again engaged in prefling his mafter's caufe upon the French King. Henry fent him his credentials, as one of his ambaffadors, from Edinburgh in March ; and he foon after accompanied to Paris the famous Lancaftrian Jafpar Tudor Earl of Pembroke, Queen Catherine's fon by her fecond hufband Owen ap Tudor, and therefore half brother to Henry. There is fome mention of this journey in a defpatch from the authorities at Rouen to their King, announcing the arrival of Pembroke and " the Chancellor of England," from which it appears that Louis, who wifhed to come to terms with Edward IV, had already thought it wife to withdraw the right of free accefs to himfelf and his country which Henry's friends had enjoyed, by requiring that all Englishmen mould be furnifhed with a fafe- conduct before they were allowed to pafs through France. Sir John had joined Pembroke in Flanders, and there learning the need of fome protec- tion, they had recourfe to the friendly Count of Charolois, who gave them letters to fmooth their way to Paris. Here follows the defpatch : — 12 June. Notre fouverain Seigneur nous nous recommandons a votre bonne grace tant et fi tres humblement comme plus povons. Et vous plaife favoir notre fouverain feigneur que au jour duy font entrez par congie en cette ville de Rouen le Comte de Pennebroc, et Meflieurs Jehan Fortefcu, chevalier, chancellier du Roy Henry DAngleterre, le quelz font venus devers nous et nous ont remonftre que de par le dit roy Henry ilz eftoient envoiez comme ambaxadeurs devers vous et avoient prins la charge foubz la confidence du congie general 1 Hume, iii. 548. Chancellor Forte/cue. 77 daler et venir par voz pays quil vous pleuft odtroyer en la faveur au dit roy Henry a tous les fubgiez tenans fon party. Mais pour ce quilz avoient fceu, eulx eftans en Flandres, la deffenfe generalle fait aux Anglois de non eulx trouver en votre royaume fans avoir fauf- conduit, ilz eftoient tournez devers Monfeigneur de Charolois, qui leur avoit octroye, pour leur feurte, certaines lettres requifitoires a tous voyjufticiers et lieuxtenans, lefquelles ilz nous monftrerent, enfemble unes lettres miflives que nous efcripeoit en leur faveur mon dit feigneur de Charolois pour les laiffer pafler, ainfi que porrez veoir, fe ceft votre bon plaifir, par icelles lettres miflives et mefmement par le double des dites lettres requifitoires de mon dit Seigneur de Charolois cy dedens enclofes, et nous requeroient feurte de aler devers vous, difans quilz avoient lettres que mon dit Seigneur de Charolois vous efcripeoit pour leur fait. Sur quoy, fire, apres que avons debatre la matiere avec aucuns de votre confeil eftans pardeca, avons remonftre aus dis conte et chancellier que au regard de la deffenfe qui faicte avoit efte, elle eft generalle pour tout les Anglois, tant de ceulx du cofte du Roy Henry que de lautre part par complaintes qui vous avoient efte faites des inconveniens qui eftoient advenus et povoient advenir a voz fubgiez par courfes et pilleries par raifon de la frequenta- cion que avoient eue par deca ceulx du party du dit roy Henry dont aucuns feftoient tournez de lautre cofte et pour autres caufes que a ce vous avoient meu, et puis que ainfi eftoit que la deffenfe avoit ainfi efte faicle, et par (ici ?) 1 publique que a nous neftoit pas de y toucher, mais toute voys que confidere leur cas et quilz affirmoient aler devers vous, et aufli quilz difoient porter lettres de mon dit Seigneur de Charolois ne leur donnerions aucun empefche- ment et advifaflent a ce quilz avoient a faire. Par quoy, Sire, ilz ont prins le chemin de tirer devers vous comme ilz dient. Et pour ces caufes envoyons ce meffagc en toute diligence devers vous, afin que en foiez adverty avant leur venue, en enfcrivant ce quil vous a pleu nous efcripre et commander de vous advertir tousjours de ce qui furvendroit des nouvelles des dits Anglois pour on furplus ordonner votre bon plai fir. Notre fouverain Seigneur nous prions le Benoift-Filz de Dieu quil vous ait en fa faincte garde, et vous doint tres bonne vie et longue et accomplifement de voz tres nobles defirs. Efcript a Rouen le xiij jour de Juing. Vos tres humbles et tres obeiffans fubgiez et ferviteurs J. EVESQUE DE SaINT BrUC Louys Destouteville et Johann Arnoulfin E. PlCART. (Dorfo) Au roy noftre fouverain feigneur. In another hand, S. Brioc, Eftouteville, Arnoulphin, & Picart. 1 Indiaintf in MS. 78 Chancellor Forte/cue. Sir John was the bearer of a fpecial letter of introduction for himfelf from King Henry VI. to his coufin of France, which teftifies to the efteem in which he held the perfon and fervices of his " Friend and loyall Chancellor :" — Letter from Henry the Sixth to Louis the Eleventh. Dated Edinburgh, 28 March. Tres hault et puiflant prince, tres chier et tres ame coufin germain de France, nous avons efte bien amplement informez pur plufeurs foiz que tousjours vous eftez monftre notre bon coufin et amy, et vous eftez tousjours bien encline en toutes les affaires de nous et la recouvrance de notre dit royaume, a voz grans coftz et defpens, tant de gens, dargent, comme autrement, dont tres fort nous en reputons tenuz a vous. Nous envoyons prefentement par devers vous plufeurs de noz gens et ambaxadeurs, comme plus a plain pourrez veoir par noz aultres lettres que vous refcriprons, entre lefquelx noz gens et ambaxedeurs y eft noftre amie et loial chancellier Jehan Fortefcu, chivalier, au quel fommes fort atenuz . . . . a fes defpens. Nous a tousjours tenu notre eftat et fait plufeurs aultres fervices, dont luy fommes fort atenuz. Pur lefquelles chofes tres hault et puifTant prince, tres chier et tres ame coufin, nous vous prions tant et fi affectueufement que plus pouvons, que celled noftre Chancellier en faveur et priera vous vueillez favourablement traictier, et luy fecourir et aider, comme a notre propre perfonne, en toutes les neceflitez et affaires quil peut avoir, tant pour nous et nos affaires comme pour luy mefmes ; a fin quii puifle congnoiftre que noz prieres luy aient proufitte en aucune maniere. Et quand Dieu plaira que nous aions la joifance et recouvrance de notre diet royaume, nous ferons avecques vous en telle maniere que toute voftre noble royalle majeftie naura james caufe de fen doubter en vous priant que vuellez toujours de mieux en mieux continuer ainfi comme bien y avons voftre fingulier et parfaite confaiance aidant le Benoift Filz de Dieu, tres hault et puifTant prince tres chier et tres ame coufin, quil vous vueille avoir et tenir en fa fainct et benoifte garde. Donne a Edynburghe le xxviij jour de Mars Henry. (Addrefled,) A tres hault et puiflant prince noftre tres chier et tres ame coufin Germain ame de France. Louis was not moved by the reprefentations of the ambafladors or by Margaret's appeals, to take any fteps for Henry's reftoration. He had made a truce with Edward, and although 1 Mackintoih. Lingard. ffipr& <&>x\pzte pux ffofifeftt &' red - never pryve. But yet the bryngers of tham into this lande faide they were of my makyng, hopynge tharby that thay fhulde have been the more favoured. There were alfo other wrytings made ther by the faid late Kyngs Councell, and fent hedyr, to whiche I was not well willynge, but yet thay pafTed by the more partie of that Counceill. And over this f. 312 To rowne, is to whifper. To rede, is to fpread abroad. The Declaracion there were made wrytinges there, fome by myne affente, and fom by my felfe. In all fuch wrytinges it fhall nede that my declaracions were dyuers according to my merites in malcinge of them. Neverthelefle I wollde fayne in all thoo wrytinges declare the effedt.es of thayme after my reafon and larnynge, yf I myght have the copyes and doubles of thayme, which I have not, nor have feen any minute of them, fythen I come into Englande. And therefore I pray you hertely to gete me fome of the fayd wrytings or copies of theym yf ye can do fo; and els that ye woll declare to me fuche of the matiers as ye can now remembre. Wherunto the faid lernyd man then faid in this wyfe. The Lerned Man. This article Syr, I haue none of the faid wrytinges nor yet any fayd copy of theym ; but yit I ETmoTd ^ rememDre me well of dyuers maters wryten in fome of thayme ; of whiche oone mater is Crochebake. this. Kynge Henry the thirde hadd two fonnes, of which the elder, as the wryting faith, was called Edmunde, and ye yonger Edwarde. And becaufe that Edmunde hadde a grete difformyte in his bake, he was called Edmunde Crochebak. And by that caufe the Kynge would not that he fhulde be Kynge of Englande after hym ; and wolde tharfore that his yonger fonne mould fuccede hym in his Realme ; and by that caufe made the faid Edmunde Henry iii.ac- Erie of Lancaftre, Leyceftre, and Derby, and caufed his fonne called Thomas of Lancaftre, Edwarc^ift' to De ^ e °^ Lyncoln by maryage, and gaffe to him the Erledome of Hountyndon, and 2nd, 3rd, many other gret lordfhippes ; and made the Countee of Lancaftre to be a countee Palatyn, Henry 4th, to thentent that his faid elder fonne mould be the leffe in the daunger of his yonger broder 5th, 6th, Ed- w hen he were Kynge. Off whiche Edmunde was afterwarde defcended Blaunche, doughter ward iv., 76 > 5 I+ 6i. to Kynge Henry, the fyrfte Duk of Lancaftre, fonne of Henry, fecond fonne to the faid f. 312 b. Edmunde. For the forfaid Thomas dyed with oute iflue. Whiche Blaunche was after- warde wedded to John the thirde fonne to Kynge Edwarde the thirde ; which John and Blaunche hadde iflue Henry afterwarde Kynge of Englande, called Kynge Henry the fourth; which hadd ifTue Kyng Henry the fyfte ; and he had iflue Kynge Henry the fixt, which by this meane was nexte heire to Kynge Henry the thyrde. Syr was this your wrytinge. Fortefcu. The anfwer For fothe fyr, nay, nor I was neuer afcentynge to the wryting thereof. 1 And yit I was artkle f0rfayd S rete ty defyred by my felowys in Scotelande, to haue made this wrytinge or othyer lyke therto, 1 The following paflage, included in James's " Excerpta ex Fortefcue," is part of the writing which he here denies to have been his. The evidently Scotch fpelling can hardly have come from an Englifh pen: — " King Henry the thyrde had hTew Edmonde that was called curvus, and Edwarde ; which Edmonde for his deformitie was put fra his ryght, and the faid Edwarde made King, and callit Edwarde the firfte ' with the long fchankis.' And for peife the feide Edmunde gaif over to hym the Erledome of Lancaftir, which is called the thyrde foot of the Croune." upon Certayn JV ry tinges. but I wolde not do it, be caufe I knew veryly that it was vntrue ; as it apperith vndoutedly by a Cronycle, called " the Cronicle of Saynt Albanes," in the which the wryter, as me thought, kept an ordre and a rule infallible. For he wrote every moneth, what the Kinge didd in every grete mater in the moneth; and what AmbafTadours or other new thinge come vnto him ; fo as by lyklinefle, he might not erre in his Cronicling. By which Cronicle hit apperith in what day and monith Edwarde fonne to Kynge Henry the thyrde, was borne; and howe in the next yere after that, at a day and place fpecyfied in the fame Chronicle, the Quene was delyvered of a doughter ; and in an other yere after that of an other doughter; f. 313. and tellith there names ; and how after the byrth of tho twoo doughters, me was delyvered of the faid Edmunde. By which Cronicle hit is clerly fhewyd that the faid Edward was Edward four or five yere elder than his forfayd broder Edmunde. And in the Cronicle called th , an J J hdmund. " Flores Cronicarum," which is holde of a greater auctorite than eny other Cronicle wryten in this lande, the fame Edwarde is ofte tymes callyd Edwardus Primogenitus Regis Anglia. Wherthorough, and by many reafons whiche I now leve for the fchortenefle, I was in- dubitably lerned that the faid Edwarde was the elder brother. Wherfore I wolde not aflent to that wrytinge made in Scotelandc, nor fe hit ; but I fayd to thaym that moved it that it was untrue. The Lerned Man. Truly fyr, than faid this lernid marine, I am righte glade that I haue harde you fay thus, The lerned for by this declaracion the Kings title fhalbe more clcre in the onnvnion and knowledge of man a % reixh 7 b . b him well to the people in that matier, than it fhulde haue bene yf the faid vntrue wrytinge hadd neuer the faid dc- ben made; and therfor I now defyre to haue communycacion with you upon fuch other claracion maters as I remembre were alfo wryten oute of Scotlande ; Truftynge that after your declaracion made in theym thay fhalle alfo turne vnto the Kinges good; how be it thay were not made to that entent. Item. The Lerned Man. Syr, ye wrote in Scotland, that the prefent kynge our fovcrayne lord claymeth this This article Roialme by defcent from two women ; which Roialme is not inherytable by any woman as SPP 0 *^ ye faid. And in proffe of your entent ye wrote howe Edmunde Irenfyde elder brother to Ircnfyde. faynt Edwarde the Confeflbur, hadd iflue a fonne ; whiche hadde iflue a doughtere weddyde f " 313 b to Malcolyne Kynge of Scottes, now canonized, and called Saynt Margarete; of which kynge and Margarete haue bene fithen dyfeendide all the kynges of Scottes ; whiche not withftondynge, after the dethe of the faid Edmunde, Sainte Edwarde reyned in this londe pefeably all the lyffe of the faid Saint Margarete with oute eny clayme made vppon him, by hyr, or by her hufbande, and with outen that env of ther heirs have claymed this londe at any tyme fithen ; whiche clayme thay wold haue made yf it hade bene inheritable by eny woman, or by the ifTue of a woman. And alfo Saint Edwarde that was fo rightwos, and tharfor is now a faynt canonized, wolde not haue kepe this londe from the doughter of the I 10 The Declaration fonne of his elder brother yf me ought to haue hadde it by inherytaunce. Syr, this wrytinge importith two things, oone is euidence that the corone of this londe is not inheritable by a woman ; the fecunde is that if it be inheritable by a woman, than the Kynge of Scottes oughte to haue it. How fore the two maters bene a yene the Kynge and his title, your reafon feelith well ynough ; and therfor they nedyne right playne and open declaracion, where in I wold fayne here you. Fortefcu. Here is dif- My frend, the fyrfte poynt whiche ye faye that the forfayd wrytyng importith, and proved the fa^ife b e euidence, that the corone of this londe is not inheritable by a woman, may not fyrft poynt ' J J that the for- make eny fuche euidence ; for hit apperith in the Cronicules of this londe, and fpecially in [mporth'e Cle Policronicon, the fixth boke, in the twenty-eight chapter, that Edgare Adelynge brother fo. 314. to Saint Margarete, was alyve and in Englonde at the time of the deth of Saynt Edwarde, and longe after ; wherfor 1 Saint Margarete in the lyfe of the faid Sainte Edwarde, might haue hadd no title to the corone, though it had been difcendable to heires females ; wherfor here noun clayme, or the pofTeflion of Saint Edwarde proven noo thing, or makyn eny euidence for the right of fucceflion of women in this Realme, or in any other. Fortefcu. And here is And as to the fecunde poynte which ye faye that the forfaid wryting importeth, that is difprovedthe to f -f ^1$ ] on( j e j-, e inherytable be woman, than the Kinge of Scottes fhuld haue right iecund poynt J J 3 0 0 of the fame therto ; that mater may be clerely dyfprouede be many reafons, of which oone is this. The article * fayd Edmunde Irenefyde was a bafterd goten by Kynge Ethelrede, otherwyfe called Adelrede, vppon his concupyne called Algeua doughter to oone Egelbrede, longe tyme be fore that the faid Ethelrede was wedded to Emma doughter of Richard Duke of Normandy, by whom he hadd iffue Saynte Edwarde the ConfefTour ; as it clerely apperith al fo well by the Cronicles wryten by Petrus Pictauenfis, 2 and by frere Nicholl Try vet, whiche I haue feen and rade fy then I come into the londe, as by other Cronicles of which I am late enformed and hope to fe thayme ayene within a fewe days. Wherfore the children difcendid of the faid Edmunde Irenfyde may not by any lawe inherete the Roialme of Englond or eny other lande as heires to the faid Ethelrede, or to any of his Aunceftries. And though he hadd f. 314 b. bene mulier, 3 as he was not, yet the Kynge of Scottes may not clayme this roialme by reafon of him, as it fhalle clerely appere by the reafons that folowen. 1 The two Harleian MSS., as well as the Lambeth and the Holkham MSS., read here, between the word " wherfor " and the words " might haue hadd," " Saint Edwarde in the life of the faid Edgare." Such a reading, however, is hardly applicable to the reft of the fentence. 2 An Englifh Chancellor; he died about a. d. 1200. For his works fee Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica. 3 i. e. legitimate. upon Certayn W ry tinges. 1 1 1 Fortefcu. Fyrfte it was fo, that after many batels hadde between kinge Knoght and Edmunde How Ed- Irenfyde, thay accorded to determyn ther werre by a finguler baytale called duellum, of j? 1 ° nd Iren " thaym felfe. In which batelle when thay wer booth werry, accorde toke betwene tham that this land to this lond fhuld be departed between them bothe fer terme of thayre lyues, and he that over- the Dancs - lyved fhulde than haue the hole to him, and to his heires euermore. By force of whiche accorde thay bothe kepte and occupied this londe in common alle the lyfe of the fayd Edmunde Irenfide. After whoos dethe kynge Knoght kepte and occupied the fame lande fole as kinge tharof bv force of the fayd accorde, and hadd iffue Harold Harefote, and Harolde Hardknoght, and died peafibly feafed tharof. Aftere whos dethe his faid two fonnes hadd and enjoyed this lande peafabely, oone after that other, alle the days of thaire lyues, and died with oute iffue. Wherfor this lande was than with outcn eny kynge. By which occafion thay drove hens alle the Danes, and chofe Saint Edwarde, then beynge in Normandy with his moders kynne, to be thaire kynge, and than fent for him, and made him kynge of Englande ; in which aftate he contynued peafably all the deys of his lyfe. What ryght than might haue remayned in th'iffue of Edmonde Irenfyde, though he had been mulier, fethen he hadd graunted his Roialme to the Daynes in fee for euermore ; be force wherof thay kepte and enjoyed it peafibly three generacions, and than lofte it for defaute of heires ? How than might eny of thiffue of Edmunde Irenfyde males, or females, clayme this londe which the fame Edmunde had youen to the Daynes, which by force f. 315. tharofe, and alfo by conqucft, kepte it peafably into thare fourthe generacion ? Suffyfith not than this mater to exclude and barre the Scottes, yf thay wold clayme this londe by the heires of Edmonde Irenfide ? By whom the Daynes have greater colour to clayme it, than they, and yet they haue no maner of ryght tharto, as it mall well appere by a matier that hereafter fhall folow. Butt yet I mail mew fyrfte another mater by which the heires of the faid Edmond beth excludid and barrable to clayme this lond as coufyns to Saint Edwarde though he hadd be mulier, which is this. Fortefcu. The lawe of Englond is fuch, that if a man havinge a brother of halfe blode, be feafed The fecondc of any londe in fee fimple, and dye with out iflue, that lond mall neuer difcende to his faid Ar 8 umcnt » t > J ' made aycnft brother, nor to his iflue, but it fhall rather efchete to the lorde of whom it is holde, that is the heires of ftraungc to that blode, and to his heires for evermor. Than fethen Edmond Irenfide, f^^e* though he hadd been mulier, and Saint Edwarde, were brotherne but of halfe blode, that is to fay, Edmunde was iffue to the forfayd Alyfone, and Saynt Edwarde was iffue to Emma doughter to the Duke of Normandy, the faid Edmonde, nor eny of his iffue might neuer fuccede, nor bee heire to Saynte Edward. Which mater he well confideryng, and that he 112 The Declaracion hadd none other kynne which ought to enherete his roialme after him, willyd that William Duke of Normandy his next cofynne in his moders fide, might fuccede him in his Roialme of Englonde. Wherunto Harold fonne of Erie Godwyn, and the grettefte lord of Englonde, f. 3 1 5 b. and alfo the more parte of all the lordis fpirituelx and temporalx of this londe, were welle aggreyd, and promytted that it fhalbe fo. And the fame Harolde made lyke promys in Normandy to the Duke him felfe, but yet after the dethe of Saint Edwarde he abated, and ocupyed this Roialme hym felfe as kynge therof. For which caufe the faid Due of Normandy come ouer with a greete hoofte and conquered this londe. Buth not all the heires of Edmonde Irenfyde, though he hadd be muliery, 1 but yet half a brother of Saynt Edwarde, barred for evermore by the lawe of Englonde to clayme this Roialme, or any londe as heire to Saynt Edwarde to whom theire aunceftre was brother but of half bloode ? Fortejcu. The thyrd Item it is wryten in the boke of Judicum the eleventh Chapitre, that Jepte fumtyme made'ayenft J u gg e > anc * gouernour of the children of Ifraell, juftyfied their pofiefion in certayn landis the forfayd whiche thay hadd goten by conquefte of the children of Amon, by caufe thay hadd kepte hcyrcs. and occupyed the fame landes peafably after thaire conqueft by the fpace of three hundred yere; how moche more lawfully than may the Kynge our fouerane lorde, whos progeni- tours and him felfe bond fide haue been peafably poffefTed of this londe more than four hundred yeres, juftyfie his pofTeffion tharin ayen the forfayd Daynes and Scottes yf thay wold clayme hit by any title grawen to thaym by Edmunde Irenfyde, or eny other man be fore the Conquefte ? And in lykewyfe a yen the Saxones, Romayns, and Brytons, which in olde days haue been lordes here, the poffeffion truly of four hundred yeres, excedith grettely the title of prefcripcion ufed in eny Roialme of the world. And yet is prefcripcion oone f. 316. of the ftrengeft titles aucloryzed by any lawe. Is not nowe the forfayd wry tinge made in Scottelande concernynge Edmonde Irenfyde thoughe he hadd be mulyer, clerely provede of noone effecle ? And that it maketh noon euydence a yen the Kyng our fouerane lorde, but that the kynges title by occafion of yt, and by reafon of this declaracion, is more clere, and fhalbe more openly knowen than it fhuld haue been if that wrytinge hadd neuer be made ? Wherthorow it turneth all to the kings good, though the vtterer tharof ment not that it fhuld haue doone foe. The Lerned Man. The confyde- Sir, than faid this lerned man, ye wrote alfo while ye were in Scottelande that Kinge racion which ,-j , r^-r-i , . , , , ledde Kinge Henr >" tne *"th beinge lerned by wyfe and connyng men, that he might not have the Roialme Henry to make a- corde with Fraunce. 1 Muliery, i. e. legitimate. upon Certayn Wrytinges. "3 of Fraiince by the title of a woman, that is to fainge by the title of quene Ifabell that was doughter to the kynge of Fraunce, and fyfter to three kinges that reyned ther after the deth of hir Fader, lefte for that caufe that title and clayme ; and alfo the ftile and name of Kynge of Fraunce, which he hadd ufed many yeres byfore, and accorded with Charles the kynge of Fraunce to wedde his doughter Kateryn, and dide foo. And vpon the treaty of that maryage accorde toke betwene the kynges by thaffent and counfell of the more partie of the Dofeperes, 1 and three eftates of that londe, that the faid Kynge Charles muld haue and enjoy peafably the Roialme of Fraunce, with the dignitie, ftile, and name of Kinge of Fraunce, all the dais of his lyffe; and after his decefle the Roialme of Fraunce muld remayne and goo to the fayd Kynge Henry and to his heires kynges of F,nglonde for euer more. And that the fame Kynge Henry (and his heires) muld be Regent of Fraunce, and called f. 31b b. heres et Regens regni Francis all the lyfe of the fayd Kynge Charles. Whiche accorde, and all thynges conteyned in hit was affermed and made fure as well by the three eftates of Fraunce with th'aftent of the moofte partie of the Doufpers, as by a parlament holden in Englonde the ninth yere of the faid King Henry. By force and caufe of whiche accorde the fame Kynge Henry lefte the name and ftile of Kynge of Fraunce in all his wrytings, and was called Rex Angli an( ^ more> And. fythen Kynge Henry the fifte is now dede with oute iflue, the title and iyderacion. J 1 D 4 right that grewe by that accorde is now holyche, and oonely yn the Kynge our fouerayne f. 317 b. lorde, whiche is indubytable his next heire made. So that now he hath title and right to the Roialme of Fraunce, as well the title that grewe of that accorde, as by his olde tytle whiche he and his progenitours, heires to the forfayd quene Ifabell, have long hadd, and which his forfaid noble aunceftre, Edmond Erie of Marche hadd before the faid accorde, and at the tyme of the makynge tharof, and his heires alway fythen have hadde, as well in the lyves of the fayd Kynge Charles, Kynge Henry the fifte, and of his fonne, as fythen, not excludede by the forfaid accorde to have and clayme it as next heires to quene Ifabell. So that in the lyfe of faid Henry fonne to Kynge Henry the fifte, the Kynge our Souerayne lorde hadd as verely right to the Roialme of Fraunce, and fhulde have hadd ayen the fame fonne yf he hadd been in pofTeffion of that Roialme, as he nowe hath ayene kynge Lowys which occupyeth the fame Roialme, and as his noble progenytours have hadd ayene the aun- ceftres of the fame Lowys, the forfaid accorde notwithftondynge. Neuerthelefs his highnes hath now both titles, that is to faynge his auncient title, aunceftrell, as next heire to quene Yfabell, and this new title that was gotene by the forfaid accorde. Is not nowe the forfaid fecunde poynte as clerely dyfproved as the fyrfte, fo that by the forfayd latter mater wryten oute of Scottelande thaire remayneth no more maner of evydence ayene the Kynge nor his title ? Why Kynge Henry his Fortefcu. Syr, ye haue fo clerly declared theffecles of the forfaid lafte wrytinges that it now nedith upon Certayn JV ry tinges. not more declaracion made by me and I am right gladd to here of youe, and to vndyr- councell ftonde by your faynge how grete nede the councell of the lafte Kynge Henry hadd to wryte ^e°fuccef- ayene the title of the enherytaunce of women in kyngdoms ; for els by that title the Kynge fl0n of our fouerayne lorde myght haue diftroyd inevitably the title whiche the fayd late Kynge hadd kyngedome in the Roialme of Fraunce by force of the forfayd accorde, as ye haue clerely mewed. Alfo f - 3' 8 - by that title the Kynge oure fouerayne lorde was vndoutably inherytable to the Roialme of Englond byfore the fame Kynge Henry, confyderynge that he is defcended of Lyonell the elder brother, and the fame Henry was defcended of Johne the yonger brother, as is be fore openly declared. O howe good lorde is Godde to the Kynge oure Souerayne lorde that now hathe yeven him thies bothe titles wherethorow his fubgettes may fight for hym in his title for his roialme of Fraunce with oute any doute or fcrople of counfcience; for by fyde his auncien title, that Roialme is now al fo clerely fure to him and to his heires by the faid accorde, as all the councell of bothe Roialmes coude or yet canne make it. The Lerned Man. Than fayd the lerned man, Truly Syr, me thynketh youe well defpofed in all theis maters Here is de- hiderto, for in all wrytinee made by yourfelf ye haue confcfled the trouthe and declared the y . red a de ~ » jo J J J claracion caufe why ye wrote fo, wherin I cane afligne no defaulte in you. And in thoo thinges that ayen the wer wryten by other men ayenfte youre wylle, ye haue declared the qualites and merytes of L°ten°and thaym bothe truly and planely, to the Kynge's good and honour, as me thynketh; for whiche other wrjt- ye be worthy right grete thanke. But yet Syr, ye wrote oute of Scottelande oone matier ^Scote-* which nedith Right gret and clere delaracion, for it fownyth gretly ayen the Kinge's old landc - title to his Roialme of Fraunce ; and fo it dydde when it was wryten ayenft his title of this f ' 318 b- londe. Whiche matier is this; Ye wrote that no woman may fuppremely reigne vpon man, for Gode faide to the fyrfte woman thife wordes, EHs Jub poteftate viri y et ipfe dominabitur tut. Which wordes faid to hire, was faid to all the kynd of woman ; as the wordes then faid by Gode to the fyrft man wer faid to all mankynde. And oult this ye wrote a boke in Laten, be whiche ye entendid to proue the fame by many auclorytes, fcriptures, and reafons; wherin yf ye fo declare yourfelfe, and the maticrs of that boke, as the Kynge be not harmed by theyme, ye than acquyte you well, and do tharin to his highnefle right acceptable and lovynge feruice. Fortefcu. I wolde fayne do as ye move me, God knowyth, and right fory that ever I wrote fo, or Fortcfcue labored vpon the makynge of that Laten boke. But yet the werke to whiche ye nowdefyre [he dc leclara- me were more conuenyent to another mans pen than to myne ; for I haue wryten fo much cion which 1 Here tin Hvleian MS. breaks off. T j 6 The Declaration is defyrcd of tharin to an other entent, as ye know welle, that yf now I do as ye move me, my worke him wold be tharin ,j fown fo j , e dowbleneffe, that in the oppynyone of the people, and namely of to his in- l 1 . fame. fimple men, I may tharby fall into infame of dowblenelie ; and yf it be doon by another man he may haue no hurte be it, but he mall haue right grete worfhipp yf he do it conyngly. f. 319. Wherfor I wold be right gladd, and helpe him tharin in alle that I coude, and honeftely might do. Alfo Syr, fithen thies maters to whiche ye ftere me, concernen the right of fuc- ceflion in kyngedoms, whiche is the gretteft matier temporall in all the worlde, they oughten to be treted and declared by the moofte profounde and gretteft lerned men that can be goten tharto, and not by men of my fimpleneffe that haue not moche labored or ftudyed in any faculte except the lawes of this londe, in which the ftudientes lerne full lytell of the right of fucceffion of Kyngdomes. And alfo yf any thinge be wryten herein which may reafonably be difproued, that writinge wher it is difproued, fhalle fortefye and helpe the oppynyon of all theym that haue wryten to the contrary entent. Wherfore I drede me fore to wryte herein, knowynge myne infuffycientie tharto, and that if it be not fufficiente, men wolle fay that I made it fuche for to ftrenght tharby my rather 1 wrytynges Et fic erit nouijfimus error pejor priore. Wherfor me thinketh the Kyng's highnefle wolde be moved to commytte this werke to fuch as beth more able and more prone tharto than I. The Lerned Man. The wrvt- Youre wyfdome, Syr, concey veth well how fergeauntes and aduocates that been right now hde worfhippfull men arguen dayly to prove the titles of thayr clyantes, and after that in a lyke fyred may cafe for another clyant thay arguen to the contrary entent, and beth not for that, nor ought woTfhippfulI to ^ e blaymed. So alfo doone The Jugges in maters of gret diffyculte wherin thay beth alfo f- 319 b. indifferent, as thay be, for fuch difputacion ys to thayme befte meane to find the right in euery doubtous cafe. Gracian alfo that compyled the booke of the Lawe Cannon, called Decrees, in all his queftyons which he maketh in the cafes whiche he puttith there, called caufes, difputith for eithir partie of euery queftione. Thus doth Saynt Thomas in Secunda Secunde, 2 and in all his bokes where as he afketh eny queftions, and thus doone all the clarks that determyn eny matirs in fcoles ; for this ordre is no doubleneffe, but argument and proof of conynge and vertue. And fithen your wrytynges whiche ye haue made in the matiers in the whiche I now move you, were but arguments, and ye no Jugge, but a parcyall man, feruant to him for whos fauour ye made the arguments, and his caufe is now expired, and he deed, ye may nowe honeftly and commendably with oute eny note of blame argue to the contrary entent of that ye haue doo by fore this tyme yf ye finde reafons and groundes to do fo. And alfo ye ben nowe bounde in confcience and by right to do fo, confyderyng that ye be 1 " Rather " here means earlier, as the comparative of rathe, early. 2 St. Thomas Aquinas, one of whofe works is fo named. upon Certayn W ry tinges. IJ 7 the Kyngs liege man, and of his councell, and founde in his noble grace alfo grete clemence and fauoures as euer dyd man fithen he fyrft reyned vpon vs ; and perauentur yor olde argumentes and wrytynges mowe els turne and be occafion to his harme, or to the infamie of the title be which he reigneth upon us ; which I am right fure ye wold not were fo. And Syr, yf ye wryte as I move you to do, and than it fortune your wrytynge to be not of fuche effecte as ye entende, which thinge me thynglceth ye drede gretly, The Kynge mall not be harmede tharby; for his highnefle may than make other notable and connynge men to make better wrytinge tharin; wherin thay mall fynde leffe diffyculte whan they haue feen your wrytinges. Fortejcu. f. 320. Syr, youre reafons and motyves beth fo gret that yf I do not as ye move me I dred that A woman is men mail holde me felfewylly, and tharfor I wolle aflay and do as ye defyre me. The poweVof matier which ye fay I wrote and is fo gretly ayenft the Kynge is this. I wrote how that me man while femyd no woman ought foueranly or fuppremely to reynge vpon man. Which matiers I tnc Pope." pretended to prove by the Juggementes which God gave vpon the firfte woman whenne fche hadd fynned, faynge to here thife words, Eris Jub potejlate viri,et ipfe dominabitur tui, whiche been wrytten in the boke of Genefis the thirdc chapitre, and beth fuch in Fnglyfhe M Thou fhalt be vnder the power of man and he fhall be thy lorde." Which wordes fpoken to that woman was, as I thoo wrote, fpoken to all the kynde of women, as the wordes tho fpoken by God to the firfte man were faid to all mankynde. This matier ye now defyre that I woll fo declare, and alfo the matiers of a booke which I wrote in Laten to enforce myne intent herein, as the kynge our fouerayne lorde be not harmed be thcym in his titlis of Englonde or of Fraunce. Syr, as to the fyrfte poynte in whiche ye defyre my declaracion, I hope to finde not difficulte. For our lorde fayde not in his forfayd Juggement that a woman fhuld be vnder the power and lordfhipp of all men, or of many men, but he fayd indiffinytely or indetermynably that fhe fhulde be vnder the power and lordfhipp of man ; which is true yf me be vnder the power or lordfhippe of eny man. For logycions fayne, Quod prcpoftcio indijfinita eft vera ft in tiliquo Juppofito ilia fit vera, and by that Reafoune me is vndyre the power and lordfhippe of man yf in any kynde of fubjecion fhe be vndyr the power and lordfhippe of any man. Whcrfore howe be it that thar beth many kyndes of lordfhippes called by dyuerfe names in Latin, as is, Dominium Regale, Dominium Politician, Dominium difpoticum, and fuch other, yf a woman be vnder the power of man in oone of the kyndes of f. 320 b. lordefhippcs, fhe is vndere the lordfhipp of man. And that euery woman is vnder the power and lordfhippe of fume one man, which is alle that fhe is arted vnto by the forfaid Juggement in Genefis, may not be denied ; for euery woman is vnder the power and lord- fhippe of the pope, whiche is a man, and he vicare of Crifte, God and man. And though his power and lordfhippe were but fpirituell, yet the beinge vndyr that power and lordfhippe u8 The Declaracion is a beinge vnder the power and lordfhippe of man. Wherfore the forfaid texte of Genefis, or eny thinge by me deduced therof, may not prove that a woman may not reigne in a kyngdome of whiche the kinge hath no foueragne in temporaltes, fithen fche abideth alway fubget to the pope. And by the fame reafoune it may not hurte the kynge in his titles to his forfayd twoo Roialmes. Fortefcu. The argu- Item this matier is argued in the forfaid Latin boke in this forme. God commaunded, ayenft^o- 6 anc * b y his juggement eftablyfhed that euery woman fhalbe vnder the power and lordfhippe man in the of man ; than, by the fame commaundment and juggement he commaunded that no woman a en o e. ^j^g f ree or exem pt f rom the power and lordfhippe of man ; for, as I wrote there, Precepto vno contrariorum eorum alterum prohiberi necejfe eft. But a woman to reigne in a kyngdome of whiche the kingdome is fubget to no man in temporaltes, is a woman to be fre and exempt from the power and lordfhippe of man ; hit fhall thanne neceffarily enfue that no woman f". 3?. i. may reigne in any fuche kyngdome; for it were fuppremely and foueraynly to reign vppon man ; wherthorough fhe wer thanne not vndyr the power and lordfhippe of man. This is the ftrengyft argument that is made in the faid boke by reafoune of the forfayd texte of Genefis. Wherfor yf this argument be clerely dyftroyed, the fyrfte matier whiche ye defyre me to declare is than clerely declared. Nowe truly I am right fory that euer I made eny fuche argument ; for it is an informyle tale, and no kynde of filogifme. Wherfor the minor is inpoflible, and tharfor not true ; and the confequent, yf it might be callede a confequent, is not neceffarie. Wherfore this maner of Argument proueth no thinge. Fortefcu. Here is The forfaid minor is this. A woman to reign in a kingedome of whiche the kinge is n^khgls" f u kg et to 1100 man in temporaltes, is a woman to be free, and exempt from the power and with oute lordfhippe of man. Fyrfte it nedyth that it be vndyrftonde that alle that we fpeke of kinge temporaltes" an£ ^ kingedome in this difputacion mufte be vndyrftonde of Cryften kynges, and thaire kyngdomes, though tharin we name thayme not fo. Thanne thus ther is not, or may be, by pofTibilite, eny kingedome of whiche the kinge in temporaltes is fubget to no man ; for all kynges beth membres off holy Chyrche, of which our holy fader the Pope is Vicare to Cryfte as hede, faynge the Appoftell Omnis viri caput Criftus eft, to whome alle the membres of the Chyrche, as to the hede tharof, beth and ought to be fubgettes, and obedyentes. Wherfor thanne it wolle followe neceffaryly that any kinge to be not fubget to any man is unpoflible, fythen euery kinge as a membre of holy Chirch, is fubjecle to the Pope. Thanne whethir this fubgeccione be only of his perfone, or alfo of and in his perfone and his kingdome, which bothe be temporales onely, now remaneth to be proved. And to upon Certayn JV ry tinges. 119 prove that he and his kingdome, and alfo he in his kingdome and in all other of his tempo- raries, beth fubget vnto the Pope, I procede in this maner. Or Cryfte was conceyved, God faid of him by his Aungell to his moder theis wordes Dabit Mi Dominus Deus Jedem Dauid fatris ejus, et regnabit in domo Jacob in eternum, et regni ejus non erit finis. Of which wordes this is the fentence. God promitted by his Aungell that Crifte Jefus fhulde haue the eftate and dignite of Dauid which was kynge of Ifrael, and that he fhuld reigne in that kingdome, which in the forfaid wordes the Aungell called the houfe of Jacob, for Jacob was called Ifraell, of whom all the people of that Roialme were defcended. And tharfor by him, and of him, that roialme was called the kingdome of Ifraell, in whiche the Aungell faid that Crifte fhuld reigne for euermore, and that ther fhuld neuer be ende of his reigne. Ifraell by interpretacion is a man that feeth God ; thanne is not the kingdome of whiche the aungell thoo fpake the kingdome of Jewes, for they feen nat God, and alfo thaire kingdome is endede ; but it is the kingdome of all Cryften men, which onely amonge al mankynde feen God, and euyr fhall lafte, and nowe is called all holy Chyrche. In this kyngdome nowe reyneth Cryfte by his vicare, and euer mall reygne, for he promitteth to be with vs vnto the ende of the worlde, as fomtyme reyned Dauid in the kingdome of Ifraell while he lyvede. And fithen all the Princes and Subjectes of Kinge Dauid were his fubjectis in thair perfones, and in thair poffeffions, why than beth not now all the kinges and princes of the chirche fygured by the kingdome of Dauid, al fo wele fubjecles to the Pope in thaire perfones, as in thair temporaltes ? Kinge David toke not from his fubgetts thaire goodes or poffefliouns f. 322. with oute jufte caufe ; but yit he compelled the princes of euery Tribe to rule juftely thair fubjectes, and els he punifhed thayme for thaire defautes. So thogh the Pope toke not from the kings thair goodes and poflefTions with outen caufe, yet he ought compcllc theym to rule juftely thaire fubjects, and els to punyfhe theym for thaire neglygens and defauts. Thus Moyfes hanged the princes that punyfhed not thaire fubjectes whanne they hadde offended. Thus haue Popes punyfshed Emperours and Kinggis when they haue myfrulyd thaire fubjects, as we rede in Cronicles of olde dais ; for thay ought to correcte thaire owne fubjectes whanne thay offended. So ought the Pope to correcte theym whanne thay offende; and els thaire defautes fhalle remayne vnpunyfshed, which God wold not. And therfor Crifte is Kinge of all Kinges, and lord of all the worlde ; havynge in the handes of the Pope his vicare, both fwerdes ; for which he is called Rex et Sacerdos, and compellith all princes as well fpirituell, as temporell to come to his gret councelks. By which matiers, and by many moo which wolde afke grete trait of tyme yf thay fhulde be fpecified, it may vndoubtedly appere that ther is now noo kingdome in the Erthe, of Criftcn men, of which the kinge is not fubjecte, alfo welle in temporaltes, as fpiritualtes. Wherthrough the forfayd minor is now clerely proved unpoffible, and therfor it may not be tru. I 20 The Declaration Fortejcu. Here is the And fithen the minor of the forfaid argument is proved impoflible and tharfor vntrue, ofthtfo^- 1 the conclucion, called the confequent, is not neceflarye, and therfor not good by logyke, fayd argu- G r eny other faculte ; wherthrough it maketh no maner profe or evydence ayenfte the right proved.^" of fucceffion of women in kingdomes, as by the faid argument was intended. And though the faid minor hadde be poffible and true, yet the confequent tharof wolde haue made no f. 322 b. good argumente ; for though a kynge be not fubjecle to any man in temporaltes, yet it folowith not tharof that fuch a kinge is not fubje&e to any m-^n /implicit er ; quia arguendo a quo ad fimpliciter, non valet argumentum. 'The Lerned Man. The lemed Then faid the forfaid lerned man in this wyfe, Truly Syr, ye have nowe declared thies manholdyth mat j eres f 0 open l y an d clerely that ther remayneth no matier of evydence ayenfte the hym content. r J J J Kinge or his Roialmes by reafoune of the jugement yoven by God a yenfte woman, whanne he faid Eris Jub potejlate viri et ipfe dominabitur tui, which was the moofte fore matier ayenfte the inherytaunce of woman in kingdomes. The Lerned Man. The lyuere But Syr, I remembre me well that I haue redde a writinge made in your name in whiche filed b he heires of the y e doubted whethir that Phelyppe moder to Roger fometyme Erie of Marche, of whome duke of the Kynge is defcended, were the doughter of Syr Lyonell Duke of Clarence, and wheder the fame Duke had any iflue that ovir levid him or no ; for ye faid that ye had not feen nor harde f. 323. of any man that hadd feen any recorde provinge that the faid Philipp, or eny of hire heires, or that other perfonne hadde euir any lyuere in the Chauncerie, or otherwyfe, of any lorde- fhippes or other lyvelode that were fomtyme to the faid duke of Clarence. Nathelefle I mervell not grettly of youre ignorance tharin ; for I can well fuppofe that befor your departinge out of this londe ye delt not moche with that inheritaunce, and tharfor made nevir ferche for the lyuerez tharof. And while ye were by yonde the fee, ye might not fe eny fuche recorde. But Sir, now that ye beth come hider ye may with oute difficulte fe recordes, proving fuch liuerez made alfo well to the faid Phillip, as to diuerfe of hire iflue, as heires to the forfaid duke, and alfo as heires to the dochefle his wyfe dame Elizabeth moder to faid Philippe, as here after ye fhall neuer haue doute, or finde difficulte in that matier. Whervpone the fame lerned man fchevyd vnto the faid Fortefcu, a copye of an accompte made in the Efcheker in the dais of Kinge Edward the thirde in thes wordes : In compoto Johannis Grejfingham Efcheatoris Regis in Comitatibus Norfolcia et Suffolcia . computatur a vigejimo Jeptimo die Novembris anno quadragefimo Jecundo, ufque ad annum quad- ragefimum offavum, de aliquibus exitibus maneriorum de Walfyngham Jeu Crefeham qua upon Certayn W ry tinges. I 2 I Leonellus nuper Dux Clarenci* defunclus tenuit per legem Anglic pojl mortem Elizabeth* quondam uxoris fu* de rege in capite ut de hereditate Philippe fili* et heredis prediclorum Leonelli et Elizabeth*, ficut continetur tranfcripto cujufdum inquifitionis et extent* coram ditlo EJcheatore inde capta fuper hunc compotum decimo-Jeptimo die Otlobris anno quadrigefimo tertio, quo die idem Dux obiit, et diclus EJcheator maneria ilia per mortem ipfius Ducis c*pit in manum regis ufque vigejimum quartum diem Augufti fequentis, quo die dicla Philippa quam Edmundus de mortuo mari Comes Marchi* duxit in uxorem *tatem fuam Jufficienter probavit, et rex cepit fidelitatem ipfius comitis regi de omnibus terris et tenementis qu* pnediclus nuper dux tenuit tarn in dominico Juo ut de feodo, quam per legem Angli* pojl mortem pr*ditl* Elizabeth* quondam uxoris fu#, matris ipfius Philipp* de hereditate ejufdem Philipp* debitam, et eifdem comiti et Philipp* omnes terras et tenementa pr*diila cum pertinentiis reddidit, ac Rex per breve fuum datum eodem vigefimo quarto die Augufti precipit ditlo Efcheatori eifdem comiti et Philipp* de omnibus terris et tenementis pr*diclis plenam feifmam habere facere non R. et cet. By whiche recorde it clerely apperith that the forfayd Philippe was doughter and heire to the forfaid duke of Clarence, and to Elizabeth his wyfe; and that fche, and the Erie of March hire houfbond had liuere in the Kings Chauncerie of all the landis and tenements whiche the forfaid duke helde the day of his deth in his demeane as of fee ; and alfo of all thoo landes and tenements which he held by the curtefy of Englonde after the deth of the forfaid Dochefle. And ouir this, the forfaid lerned man offered to have mewed to the forfayd Fortefcu diuerfe other recordes as well of f. 29. the Efcheker, as of the Chauncerie, proving all the premiflcs if he wold haue goten with hym into the fame Courtes. Fortefcu. Wherunto Fortefcu, I pray you, Sir, to ASew to me no moo records of this matier, For this fuffyfith to put oute of my mynde alle the doutc that I hadde in this matier. For fithen the faid Philippe and her hufbande hadde lyuere as heire to the forfaid duke in oone Countee, it may not be douted but that thay hadd lyke liuere in euery Countee of Englonde wher as the faid due hadd any lyfelode. And thoughe thay hadde not, yet it apperith that thay ought to haue hadde. The Lerned Man. Then faid the lerned man in this wyfe, Syr, while ye were in Scotteland ye wrote howe f. 30 b. kinge Henry the firft hadde iflue a doughter wedded to the Emperoure of Almayne, by whome me hadd no iflue ; but after his deceafe (he was wedded to the Erie of Angeou, and had iflue by him a fonne afterwards called Henry fitz. Emprefle ; and that kinge diede without eny other iflue. After whofe deth this londe wold not fuffre his doughter to reygne R 122 The Declaration upon hem, by caufe, as ye fayd, it was not inheritable by woman; and by the fame reafonne thay wolde not fuffre hire fonne to be thaire kinge by title of her; but thay chufe thanne Stephen Erie of Boloyne, fuller fonne to the faid kinge, to be thaire kinge ; which by force of that eleccion was made and ennoynted Kinge of Englonde, and fo reigned more thanne eighteen yere. And after that, whanne the fonnes whiche the faid Kinge Stephen hadde were dede, accorde toke bitwene him and Henry fitz EmprefTe that the fame Henry fhuld after his decefe have the kingdome of England to him, and to his heires males, for euermore ; of whiche eftate he was thanne made fure by auctorite of parliament, by which title he and his iffue hath reyned in this land alle waye fethenne. Syr, me femythe whanne ye wrote this ye knewe not well the Chronicles that beth wry ten of Kinge Stephen, and of Henry fitz EmprefTe. For certaynly Kinge Stephen come not to this londe by eleccion. Nor Henry fitz EmprefTe was entitled tharin by aucloryte of parlament. Wherfor fithen ye be now in this londe, where ye may ferche and find the trouthe therof, which ye knew not then, me thinketh it were for you nowe to make fuche ferche, and thanne to declare by your wrytinge the clernefTe and trouthe of this matier ; for els the King's title, as well to this londe, as to his Roialme of Fraunce, might be dyfFamed and hurte by coloure of your fayde wrytinge, which I knowe well ye wolde not wer fo in any wyfTe. f. 224 b. The ferche made touch- ing the for- fayd matier. Fortefcu. I thanke you my frende, for your counceyll. But yet truly I haue done alle redy as ye now aduyfe me. And therfore I fhalle fchewe vnto you in articles, what I haue founde in fondrye Cronicles of the matier. Fyrfte I find in a Cronicle written by a worfhipfull clarke called Radulphus de Duceto fumtyme Deane of Pawles, how vndyr the yere of our lorde one thoufand one hundred and thirty-five, he writeth thefe word.es, 1 Rex Anglor Henrycus cum regnajfet annis triginta quinque, quatuor etiam menfibus, decejfit apud Sanclus Dionijium, 2 in Silua Leonum, et in Anglia Jepultus eft apud Radingum. 3 Hugo By god Senefcallum regis veniens in Angliani, coram Archiepifcopo Cantuarienfi Jacramento probauit quod dum Rex Henricus ageret in extremis, ortis quibujdam inimiciis inter ip/um et imperatricem, ipfam ex heredauit, et Stephanum Bolonite Comitem heredem inftituit. Willielmus Cantuarienfis nimis credulus verbis Senefcalii, Stephanum Moritonii ' Comitem conjecrauit in Regem apud Weft- monafterium. By whiche wordes it apperith that Kinge Stephen was made Kinge of Englande, and the EmprefTe put from that aftate oonely by the reporte of the Stewarde of the Kings Houfe, to whiche the Archebifshope gave to hafty credence. Wherthorough it apperith that. the fame Kinge Stephen was not chofen to be Kinge of Englonde, as is con- teyned in the forfayd wrytinge made in Scoteland. 1 Twyfden, Decern Scriptores. 3 Reading. 2 St. Denis le Forment in Normandy. 4 Moretoil in Normandy, of which Stephen was count. upon Certayn Wry tinges. 123 Forte/cu. Item I finde in the fame Cronicle howe that in the yere of our lorde one thoufand one Another hundred and fifty-two, Henry fitz Emprefle entred into this londe wherof the faid cronicles Cron,c,c - wrytyth under thees wordes llenricus dux Normannorum intrauit Angliam in manu valida infra otlavas Epiphanie, Cajlellum de Malmejbury obfedit, et milites intus obfejfos ad dedicionem coegit. Euftachius films Regis mortuus eft. By which it apperith that in the lyffe of Kinge f. 325. Stephen, and by fore any accorde made with him, Henry fitz Emprefle claymed this londe in his owne right as inherytor tharoff" ; for at the tyme of his entre he hadd non othere tharto. Forte/cu. Item in the yere of oure lorde one thoufand one hundred and fifty-three the faid Item another Cronicle Cronicler 1 writeth in this wyfe Euenit quod minime credebatur, dijfencio regni non dirimitur in romc e ' gladio. Partibus euocatis /line et inde tranfaccio celebrata eft ; diligencia inter uenit Archiepifcopi Cantuarienfis et aucloritas plurium operata eft : Wintonienfts Epifcopi profuit folicitudo : coepifcoporum ajfenfus non defuit ; defuit procerum et concilium et conjenjus. Et ut noftri majores videantur a legibus aliquid accepiffe, novi aliquid a legibus Jumpferunt . Ducem ft quidem Normannorum Rex in filium arrogavit et in eum jus Juum tranftu/it, et poteftatem ftbi coad- junxerit, regime dignitatis folam ymaginem refcrravit. Et ft profeticum illud attenderis, jam Je induit genitore, jam ducem arrogavit in filium : In part ici pern regni et poft modum Juccejforum univerfi ducem recipient : In rege ducem et in duce regem finguli venerabuntur. By this Cronicle it apperith that the accorde made betwene Kinge Stephen, and Henry fitz Emprefle was a priuat peas, and covenant made betwene hem by the meanys of fpirituell men for the terme of the lyffe of Kinge Stephen, and tokc no longer any effecle, for it was made by none auclorite of parlyment ; as it expreflely apperith, by the fame Cronicle, vndir thees wordes. Epifcoporum ajfenfus non defuit, defuit procerum et conftlium et confenfus. ' What wordis may more clerly ffiewe that it was not made by auclorite of parliament than doon thies wordes that feyn there lacked to this accorde the councell and aflent of the nobles temporals of the londe ? Forte/cu. f. 325 b. Item in an other Cronicle wrytten under the yere of oure lorde one thoufand one Another hundred and fifty-two is conteyned thus, Stephanus Rex Anglorum et llenricus dux Nor- mannorum cognatus ejus, oBo Idus nouembris Jufticid de celo profpiciente, concordati Junt hoc modo. Rex prius recognouit in conuentu Epifcoporum et comitum et rclinquorum optimatum 1 Twyfden, Di ccm Scripton v 124 The Declaration hereditarium jus quod dux Henricus habebat in Regno Angli<£, et dux benigne conceffit vt rex tota vita Jua fi vellet regnum teneret. And in lyke fourme is wrytten the fame yere, quafi de verbo in verbum, in the Cronicle Flores Hyftoriarum. By which it exprefTely apperith that Kinge Stephen knowledged that Henry fitz EmprelTe which was thoo entred into Englonde, hadd right to the faid londe as his inherytaunce ; and that after that accorde, the faid King Stephen had no right tharin but by the graunte of Henry fitz EmprefTe. 'The Lerned Man. The effede Whervpon the forfaid lerned man than fayd in this maner. Faithfully Syr, me thinketh {[ d cronf- ^ at y e naue ^ one § ooc * anc * e ^" ec ^ ue ^ diligence in the ferch of the Cronicles. Which be cles. right playne, and prouen clerly that Kinge Stephen was neuer chofen by the londe to be kinge tharof ; and alfo that Henry fitz EmprefTe was Kinge tharof of his owne inhery- taunce, as fonne and heire to the EmprefTe doughter to Kinge Henry the fyrfte ; and that he cam not to this londe by title of eleccion, or by au&orite of parlyament, as was fuppofed by the forfayd wrytinge made in Scoteland. Wherthorough than it openly apperith that he had right tharin by his moder, whiche right he enjoyed all his lyfe, and fo haue done all his f- 326. childer fithen. And by the fame reafoune Roger fometyme Erie of Marche, fonne to Philippe doughter to the fayd Duke of Clarence, elder brother to prynce Edward, fader to Kinge Richarde ought to haue hadd this Roialme as next heire to Kinge Richarde. By which confideracione Kinge Richard made the fame Erie of Marche to be proclaymed in parlya- ment his heyre apparent, beynge ther tho prefent the Duke of Lancafter, and his fonne the Erie of Derby, whiche after the dethe of King Richarde reygned as Kinge of Englonde callyd Kinge Henry the fourth. Which right to the Crowne is defcended from the fayd Roger fometyme Erie of Marche, to the Kinge our fouerayne lorde, as to his Cofynne and heire, that is to faynge fonne to Rycharde, fonne to Anne, daughter of the fame Rogere Erie of Marche ; as is in an article before fpecially declared. And by lyke tytle, defcent, and right, our fayd fouerainge lorde ought to haue the Roialme of Fraunce by Ifabell moder to Kinge Edwarde the thirde doughter and heire to the Kinge of Fraunce. The Lerned Man. Nowe truly Syr, I am gladd that I haue comenyd with you uppon all thes matiers. For how fo be it that when ye wrote them ye intended that they fhuld haue been fore agayne the Kings title by which he tho claymed, and now hath this londe, and fo thay fowndyd, and wer fo taken of many men, God knovvyth ; yet nowe, blyfTed be God, thay be turned to a f. 32 b. contrarie entent and effecte, for thay have caufyd alle your forfayd declaracions. By whiche the faid title is now fo clere and oppenne that ther remayneth to theym that wyll fbryve therwith, nether matier nor coloure to do fo. And verely ye be worthy grete thanke for upon Certayn W ry tinges. that ye haue thus planely fayd in thies matiers, not fparinge your owne oppynions whiche ye helde, while ye ware a parcyalle man ; but preferring right a bowe wylle, and alle effections. And where as late ye drad that fuch maner of delynge might hurte your fame, truly Sir, it may not do fo, for ye haue in no thinge fayd nay to fuch thinges as ye verely knewe; but in many things which ye proued by arguments ye haue now dyfprouyd by gretter reafons. And many things which ye wrote by informacions wenynge thay hadd bene fuch as ye were tho informed, ye have fethen knowen by grete Euydences and Cronicles that thay were not fuch ; which ye nowe knowledge as ye ought to do. For els ye hadd doone a yen right ; which me thynketh ye be not fo difpofed to doo. 126 Family of CafilehilL Chap. IX. The Forte/cues of Filleigh, or CafilehilL E fhall now inquire into what is on record of the pofterity of the Chancellor, through his only fon Martin Fortefcue, or- Sir Martin, as he is fometimes ftyled. Martin Fortefcue married Elizabeth Denzille or Deynfell, daughter and heirefs of Richard Denzille of Filleigh, Wear-Giffard, Buckland-Filleigh, and Landfend in Colebrook, all in North Devon ; and in South Devon pofleffing Combe in Holbeton, and Tamerton, on the Tamar. 1 Their marriage fettlement is dated September 10, 33 Henry VI. (a. d. H54)- 2 The defcent of this heirefs, and of her large poffefTions, was as follows : — The manor of Wear-Giffard 3 was given to one of the Giffards by William the Con- queror ; from which circumftance, and becaufe there was a fifh-wear in the river Torridge on the manor, the -name arofe. An heirefs of Sir Walter Giffard, who was lord of the manor in 1 242, married a Cornifh Knight Sir Walter Tre-wen or Tre-awne, whofe great-grandfon William "called himfelf Weare, of his dwellinge;" and about the 13th of Henry IV., (a. d. 1411-12), marrying Elizabeth de Filleigh, daughter and heirefs of John de Filleigh, fixth in defcent from Simon de Filleigh, became thereby feized of the Filleigh and the Buckland-Filleigh eftates. This William Weare, and Elizabeth de Filleigh, had iffue, an only daughter, Joan Weare (Pole calls her Elizabeth), who carried both her father's and mother's poiTefTions to her hufband Richard Denzill, whofe fon Richard marrying Anne daughter of Sir Philip Courtenay of Powderham, and widow of Sir William Palton, had iffue an only child Elizabeth, married to Martin Fortefcue. 4 There is little mention of this perfon, who died, at rather an early age, a few years before his father. He lived on his wife's eftates at Filleigh, the prefent Caftlehill, where, fays Rifdon, 5 he had " large demefne with a park thereto belonging," and, he adds, writing about a. d. 1620, "where the franknefs of the houfekeeper confirmeth the welcome of friends ; " 1 Weftcote's Devonfhire, p. 352. 2 Mr. Incledon, in Stemmata Fortefcuana, relates that he had feen this document. See alfo Mr. Yonge s letter in fame compilation. 3 Letters to the author from Rev. J. W. Weare of Hampton Houfe, Hereford, written in 1863; and Pole s Collections for Devon, p. 385. 4 Pole's Collections for Devon 5 Rifdon, p. 313. FAMILY OF William Fortescue of Wimpfton, liv 1406. (See the Wimpjlon Pedigree.) Sir John Fortescue of Shepham and Norn! 2nd fon, Governor of Meaux in 1420. Sir John Fortescue, 2nd fon, born about 1395; Ch cellor to King Henry VI. Martin Fortescue ■ mar. 1454; died=j=ELizABETH, dau. and heir of Richard Denzille of Filleigh, Wear-(j before his father, Nov. 12, 1472. land Filleigh; furvived her firft hufband, and re-mar. SirRichardi . I WlLLIA ancefto John, aged 12 years at his father's death ;=j=a.d. 1480, Jacquet, dau. of Ralph St. Leger, born 1460; died June 2, 1503. | Efq. of Amony, in Monkfleigh. (l) George, aged 19 at his father's death. I Bartho! Gertrude, mar. to Sir Bernard Richard of Filleigh, born=pJoAN, dau. of . . . Drake of Afh; buried 1601. 1517; died 1570. | Moreton of Kent. — I Mary.:: ^Humphrey Yeo of Heanton Sackville Ellen. =Willi am Canwell of Hach / dell, in Loddifwell, buried U ( 1 ) Hugh of Wear- ■ Giffard, buried 1600. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Chi- chester of Raleigh ; buried 1630. (2) George of=j=JoAN, dau. of A Daughter, Combe, living Norleigh of mar. to Jef- 1 570. Inwardleigh. fry Tothill. I . Mary.- =Richard CULME of Molland. John of Filleigh ;=pMary, dau. of Humphrey buried 1605. Speccot of Speccot, in Thornbury; buried 1637. Hugh of Wear- Giffard ;= 2nd fon; mar. 1623; buried 1650. S.P. ^Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Cof- fin of Portledge. 1 A Daughter, mar. to Anthony Pol- lard of Way. Hugh of Wear-Giffard, mar.=r=MARY, dau. of Robert Rolle 1612; buried 1661. ) of Heanton Sackville. Elizabeth, mar. to . . . Langford. Dorothy, mar. to George Yeo. Sarah, r Woolco I John, ob. 1628, aged 6. Robert ; no male iflue ; but=GRACE, dau. of Sir by his lft mar. Grace, wife to Bevil Grenville of Sir Halswell Tyntf. ; and by his 2nd mar. Elizabeth, wife to George. Horner, Efq., iflue a daughter, Eliza. Stowe, in 1644; 2nd, to Susannah, dau. of Sir John North- cote, in 1652. Arthur of= Penwarne, in Corn- wall, bur. 1693. -Barbara, dau. of John El- ford of Shepfton, Efq. — 1 Edmond. ^Sarah, dau. of Henry Aland of Waterford, Efq. Hugh. = . . . . who afterwards married Thomas Doyley, Efq. Joseph. 1 ft, Bridget,: dau. and heir of Hugh Boscawen of Tregoth- nan, died 1708. =HUGH: of Fil- leigh, died 1719. =2nd, Lucy, dau. of Matthew, lft Lord Avlmer, died 1767. John of =Amy, dau. Ar- Penwarne, of Sir thur Sheriff of Peter of Cornwall, Fortes- Pen- 1 741 ; no cue of warne ifl'ue. Wood, died Bart. 1736. :Dinah, dau. of John Yerman of Lamornan, Cornwall. Joseph, = p2nd, Jo- Ed- Clerk anna, mund, of dau. of died Peace William un- CO. Gay of mar. Devon. Barn- 1704. ftaple. John, lft Lord Fortescue of Credan, born 1670. T Sam> Clee Wea fardi 168 =pift, Grace, =j= dau. of Lord Ch. Justice Pratt. L Hugh, Earl of Clinton, and lft Lord Fortescue of Caftlehill ; born 1695; died 1751, unmar. Boscawen, born 1701 ; died 1719; no iffue. Theophilus, born 1 707 ; died 1745; M.P for Barnftaple ; no ifl'ue. 1 1 Arthur, 1 1 b. 1699; l Mar- 1 Bridget, Robert, b. 1703; garet, born William , b. 1704; born 1696; Arthur, b. 1705; 1693; died all died in child- died 1743- hood. 1760. Matthew, =pAnne, dau. 2nd Lord Fortescue, born 1719; died 1785. of John Campbell, of Stack- pool Court, Pembroke- fhire. 1 Lucy,: =George, died Lord 1746. Lyttle- ton. John : of Pen- warne, born 1776. :1ft, dau. I Wld Efq. 1 John, 3rd fon, born 1 755 ; died 1773. Hugh, lft Earl: Fortescue, born 1753; died 1841. Hester, dau. of Henrietta, dau. of=r=MATTHEW, Capt.=pHENRiETTA Anne, dau. Rt. Hon. George Grenville. Col. Archer, bur. 1 794 ; lft wife. R.N.,born 1754; died 1842. of Sir Richard Hoare, Bart. ; 2nd wife. Lucy, b. 1 756, mar. 1778, Rev. . . . Harrington. An die _L Hugh,: 2nd Earl, born 1783. =Lady SusAN=2nd, Elizabeth, Ryder, dau. dau. of P. Geale, of Earl of Efq. ; widow of Harrowby, Sir W. Somer- died 1827. Ville, Bart. I George : Matthew of Boc- conoc, b. 1791, d. 1877. :Lady Louisa E. Ryder, dau. of lft Earl of Harrowby. John, in Holy Orders, b.1790, d.1869. =S0PHIA, dau. of Rev. H. Ne- ville. Hester, mar. to Peter Lord King, d. 1873. Catherine, mar. Hon. Newton Fellowes (after- wards Earl of Portfmouth), d. 1854. Anne, mar. to George Wil- BRAHAM, d. 1864. Mary, mar. to Sir J. H.Wil- liams, d.1874. T T Hi G 11 , 3rd Earl, born 1818. Georgina, dau. of Hon. Col. Dawson Damer, d. 1866. 1 John William, b. 1819; d. 1859. 1 1 Dudley— Lady Camilla Gran- Fran- Fellowes, ville cis. dau. of the Henry, Earl of b. and d. Portsmouth. 1827. Louisa Susan Anne, born 1833- George Gren- ville, b. 1835; d. 1856. 1 l 1 1 1 Hugh, Viscount Seymour- Lionel Henry Arthur John Ebrington, born John, b. Dudley, born Grenville, William, l8 54- 1856. 1857. born 1858. b. 1859. ' Harriett Hugh Mary, Eliza- Cyril Bevil. Eleanor, Grenville, born beth Dud- born born Coldftream 1846. Frances, ley, 1850. 1836. Guards, born born born 1838, 1843. 1847. died 1875. 1 Charles 1 William 1 Susan 1 Mary - ■ I"" Lucy Gr i n ville, GeorgeDamer, Elizabeth, Eleanor, Cate b. 1861. born 1866. b orn 1 848. b. 1849. b. 18 CASTLEHILL. =Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Beauchamp of Ryme, Dorfet. =Eleanor, dau. and heirefs of William Norreis of Norreis. ^Isabella, dau. and heirefs of John Jamys, Efq., of Philips- Norton, Somerfet. d, and Buck- EROY. Elizabeth.=Edward Whalesburgh, Efq. Maud.=Robert, fon of Sir Robert Corbet, Knight. Buckland Filleigh, which he inherited from his the Fortescues of Buckland Filleigh and Dromifkin. mother ; = Matilda, dau. and heir of John Atkyns of Milton Abbot. w of Filleigh. =pELLEN, dau. of Maurice Moore of Moor Hayes, in Collumpton, by Agnes, dau. of Sir Lewis Pollard. A Daugh-=LF.wis Hache of North- ter. aller, in South Molton. I Elizabeth. Anne, mar. to John Raleigh of Ford. Lewis, died in 1 595-=pWiLM0T, dau. of Sir ] Roger Gifford. 1 1 Dorothy. Achilles.=Prudence, dau. of. Luttrell of Santon Court, in Braunton. Margaret. iy.=Edmund Rey- nell (brother to George). I Rebeccas =G forge Reynell of Malfton. Sarah. =Leonard Yeo of Huifh, Efq. to John jf Combe. i Mary. Cecily. A N N E . 1 Robert. I RlCHAItl). >6=j=Mary, dau. of Yeo, Efq. Elizabeth, mar. to Sir George Chudleigh, of Afhton, Bart. (2) Joan, (3) Joanna, mar. to C. Clobery, Efq. L (4) Mary, mar. to James Erissey of ErifTey, Efq. (5) Margaret, mar. to L. Pote of Godincote, Efq. Eliza- , dau. R. ICE f ER. I Mary, mar. R. Coi'LE- STONE. Eliza- beth. I Dorothy. John of- Cleeve, born >73l- :ELIZA- iieth 1 George, died young. j,=2nd, . . . . < dau. of , ... Tre- fusis. Mar- <;aret Frances. Hugh, =pCathe R.clor of Fil- Joseph, =BsioasT, leigh, living 1794. 1 Sophia, died ■833- RINE, dau. of E. Hound lk of Barn- flaple. Bar.-; Law , died 1 779- nat. dau. of Earl Clinton. Wil- liam, Capt. R.N. bu- ried »775- Bartholomew.=p Susan. =Steph en Lee. i John, 1640. dicd~j~. . Arthur, living 1628. Gertrude, 1628. George of= Combe, mar. 1044. died 1673. Elizabeth, dau. of John For- roCUI of Buck- land-Filleigh, died 1668. JOAN.=WlLLIAM Longworth of Hache Arundel, died 1664, aged 81. George, born 1653- John iifi 1 Mill, Combe, died b. 1665; 1695. d. 1705. Thomasin, born 1656. Joan, b. 1663; d. 1718. The above on the Combe Fortefcues is from " Stemmata Fortclcuana," pp. 14, 74, 81, 117. John, who died > 743, un- mar. A fon, died un- mar. I I A daugh- ter, . . . died un- mar. Dormer, 2nd Lord For- tf.scuf of C re dan, died un- mar. 1781. Samuel ofBide- ford. Bar- bara. John, born 1736; died an infant. T Mary. LOCK Joseph of Lynhurfl.=r=MARY, dau born 1762 1 795- living 4- Eliza- BETH, mar. to Earl of Devon, d. 1867. of Mounsey. (1) Mat- =?=Erskine, 4th dau. of THEW, born 1786; mar. 1811; died 1852. Jas. Christie, Efq., of Durie, co. Fife, (by Mary Turner Maitland). WlL- = LIAM, in Holy Orders. Is All ELL, dau. of Jas Christie, Efq., died 1826. = 2nd, Eliza- beth, dau. of Rev. Robi in Gould. Ill Mil ^Caroline, dau. ol Rt. Hon. Sir H. Russell. ,J(>M I'll Hugh, bap. >79>- Hugh. bap. »793- Wil- LIAM, bap. "794 Mar\ . bap. 1792. I Matthew Charles Maitland, born 1812; died 1827. I Mary Tuh- = Fhedk- neh Fr- rick J. SKINE, ISAACKE, born 1818; Efq. mar. 1846. Thomas Dyckk Aci.and, Capt. R.N., born 1821 ; died 1865. 1 Harriett =Capt. J. Boswell Stir- FrSKINF, LING b. 1823 ; Stuart. mar. 1852. Margaret =D. Martin Lucy, Correy of born Straw 1 1 ill. 1824; Efq. mar. 1 846. 1 Hugh Frring- ton, b. 1827; d. 1859- Ar- =pAnne, dau. of Patrick Syme, Efq. CHER, born 1820. Fran-: CIS, born 1826. Katherine Fredrica, d. of Capt. A. Fli.h i . R.N. Geohgina Eleanor Alice A daughter, Seymour, Hester, Sophia, born 1806. b. 1852. d. 1864. T T William Isabella Thomas Dycke Arch er, Barclay, Aci.and, born b. 1851. b. 1854. 185b. 1 Henry, Francis Hugh born Alex., Charles, 1856. b. 1838. b. i860. Family of Cajllehill. 1 27 and alfo at Wear-Giffard. At the latter place he enlarged and remodelled the manfion, leaving it much in the ftate in which it now remains, although fome years ago the Honour- able George Fortefcue did much to reftore and preferve it. It is a very interefting memorial of the laft half of the fifteenth century; the church, hamlet, and manfion, the walls of the latter covered with ivy, myrtles, and vines, lying clofe together on the banks of the Tor- ridge four miles above Bideford in the valley through which that river comes down from Torrington, form a pleafing group. The following defcription is partly from notes which I made on the fpot in June, 1858, but, as to the heraldic details, from information very kindly fupplied by the Reverend J. W. Weare, of Hampton Houfe, Hereford, a defcendant of the old family above-mentioned, as well as from the " Stemmata Fortefcuana ": — The principal features are the old Gothic gate-houfe, built by the Weares, or Denzills, which formerly flood in a wall that furrounded the manfion, but was deftroyed in the great Civil War; and the hall, built by Martin Fortefcue about 1460, with "one of the fineft oak ceilings in England, as richly carved as that of the Chapel of Henry VII. at Weftmin- fter." 1 It has at one end a range of {tails in oak and panel-work ; at the oppofite end a mufic-gallery alfo of oak, it is wainfcoted all round. The fireplace is large and of ftone, its archway with heraldic memorials, as follow: — The creft of Weare, three fifh embowed and interlaced, in allufion to the name of the manor aflumed by the Trewens after the mar- riage with Giffard. Two coats of arms over the fireplace in ftone, viz.: — 1. Fortefcue impaling Deynfell, Weare, and Fillegh; and 2. Fortefcue quartering the fame three coats. Round the hall in oak panel are the following coats in order: — 1 Giffard. 2 Weare. 1 4 with heirefs of with heirefs of Giffard. ;md Giffard. 5 Weare 6 Deynfell 7 Deynfell, Wear, and Fillegh, with heirefs of with heirefs of impaling Courtenay. Fillegh. Weare and Fillegh. Martin alfo enjoyed, through his wife, the manfion of Buckland-Filleigh, lying high up the valley of the Torridge, about twelve miles from Wear-Giffard, in a wooded, hilly diftricl, the outfkirts of Dartmoor. He was the firft of his name who settled in North Devon, all the feats of the Fortefcues being hitherto in the fouthern parts of the county. He left iffue, two fons, John and William, and died on the Feaft of St. Martin, Novem- 1 Murray*! Handbook (or Devon and Cornwall, p. 1 3 1. 128 Family of Cajllehill. ber 1 2th, 1472, as we learn from an inquifition poft mortem taken at Torrington on the 1 2th of May, in the next year. 1 His widow married fecondly Sir Richard Pomeroy, whom me alfo outlived, Sir Richard dying in 1498-99. 2 John Fortefcue, eldeft fon of Martin, born in 1460, fucceeded, at her death, to his mother's eftates of Wear-Giffard and Filleigh, now Caftlehill, and on the Chancellor's death, to Ebrington in Gloucefterftiire, and to the manor of Combe, in Holbeton, in South Devon. The former remains in the family as part of Earl Fortefcue's eftate ; and he ftill receives a head-rent from Combe. He married Jacoba , and died on the 2nd of June, 1 502, leaving his eldeft fon George, who fucceeded him, and a fecond fon, Bartholomew. The fecond fon of Martin Fortefcue was William, who inherited Buckland-Filleigh from his mother, and founded that family, as well as its branch of Dromifkin and Ravenfdale. John Fortefcue's eldeft fon George was born in 1484, being nineteen years old at his father's death, as we learn from two poft-mortem inquifitions. It is ftrange that he mould have been patted over without mention in all the numerous pedigrees of the family ; fuch neverthelefs is the cafe. It muft therefore be alTumed that he died early without iffue, and that his brother Bartholomew inherited his father's eftates foon after the death of the latter. Bartholomew Fortefcue married Ellen, daughter of Maurice Moor, of Moorehayes, in Collumpton, by Agnes, daughter of Sir Lewis Pollard, and had iffue, two fons, Richard his fucceflbr, and Lewis, who died in 1595, having married Wilmot, daughter of Sir Roger Giffard ; and four daughters, of whom Gertrude married Sir Bernard Drake 3 of Afti, and died 1 60 1 ; and Mary married Robert Yeo of Heanton-Sackville, leaving iffue an heirefs, who carried that eftate to Henry, third fon of John Rolle of Stevenftone. Bartholomew Fortefcue died September 12th, 1557, at Wear-Giffard. Two poft-mortem inquifitions held at Wells in Somerfetfhire, and in Exeter Caftle, 4 find that at the time of his death he was feized in Somerfet, of the manor of Corfcombe held of the king, and in Devon of the manor of Wear-Giffard, held by military fervice of the co-heirs of Edward Earl of Devon ; of Filleigh, Bralegh, Brodland, and Upcott, held of the fame lord ; of Eaft Buckland, &c, &c, held of John Marrow, Efquire, by military fervice, and of Combe in Holbeton, Over- combe, Nethercombe, Bettokefbridge, Effbrd, and Alfton, held of the heirs of Charles Duke of Suffolk, by military fervice. The above mentioned manor of Corfcombe, or Crofcombe, lies about two miles eaft of Wells, at the foot of the Mendip Hills. In the church, which I vifited on the 21ft of 1 See the Appendix to this chapter. 2 Letter from J. B. Yonge, Efquire, of Puflinch, in Stemm. Fort., p. 1 17. 3 Stemm. Fort. 4 l nq . Poft Mort ^ 4 and 5 phn and Mary Family of Cajllehill. September, 1878, 1 obferved fome relics of the Fortefcues. A brafs chandelier hangs from the roof of the nave with the words, " The gift of Hugh Fortefcue, Efq. anno 1707," infcribed on it, and the Fortefcue arms are feen both on the north wall of the chancel, and on the open-work fcrcen between the chancel and nave. Beneath one of the fhiclds in the former pofition the date 1664 is vifible, and upon it Fortefcue impaled with a coat generally fup- pofed to be that of Grenville. The height, however, at which the ftiields are placed pre- vented an accurate decipherment. The manor is faid by Collinfon to have been fold by Hugh Fortefcue, Earl Clinton, who died in 175 1. 1 Richard, the eldeft fon of Bartholomew Fortefcue, fucceeded to his father's eftates ; he married Joan, daughter of — Moreton of Kent, and had iflue two fons, Hugh the eldeft, of whom prefently, and George ; and two daughters. George, the fecond fon, received from his father by conveyance in 1557 his lands in Colebrook and Bridgerfwell, and by his father's will, dated March 28, 1570,'* he was left his "capital houfe of Combe in Holbeton alias Holberton in the County of Devon, with appurtenances;" and afterwards his brother Hugh gave him, by deed, in 1581, lands at Combe or Barrels-combe, in Holberton, 3 " pro fraterno amore, et condolentia." He married Joan, daughter of — Norlegh of Inwardlegh. George Fortefcue is ftyled " of Combe," which he handed down to his descendants ; its laft pofteflbr of the Fortefcues, excepting fo far as its head-rent is concerned, appears to have been John Fortefcue, who made his will in Auguft, 17 18, proved October 17 of that year, in which the only relatives mentioned are a filter Upton, and three coufms Pollexfen.' 1 Richard Fortefcue died in 1 570, and was buried in the church of Filleigh/' where there is a good brafs to his memory. He is reprefented in armour, kneeling as in prayer, with this infeription: — " Here lyeth Rychard Fortefcue of Filleigh, Efquire, who died on the laft "Day of June, in the yeare of oure Lorde God, 1570." In the corners of the brafs there are two coats of arms : 1. Fortefcue quartering Denzille, Filleigh, and Weare. 2. Fortefcue with the quarterings, impaling Moreton. Hugh, his fon and heir, fucceeded his father Richard ; he was born in 1544," married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Chichefter of Ralegh, and fitter of Arthur Lord Chichefter, Lord Deputy of Ireland ; and by her had two fons and four daughters. John, the eldeft 1 Collini'on's Hid. of Somerfet, vol. iii. p. 469. 7 Wills in Stcmm. Port. 3 Vongc in Stcmm. fort. 4 Wills, Ibid. J Stemm. Fort., with plate. 8 Inq. Poft Mort. on Richard Fortefcue, 12 Fliz. S i 3 o Family of Cajllehill. fori, who fucceeded ; Hugh, the fecond, married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Coffin, Efquire, of Portledge, and died without iflue in 1650; Hugh Fortefcue died Auguft i, 1600. The eldeft fon, John, married Mary, daughter of Humfrey Speccot, of Speccot, in Thornbury, leaving iflue Hugh, Robert, and Richard, and fix daughters. He died March 29, 1605. Hugh, his fon and heir, was born in 1592; married, in 1612, to Mary, daughter of Robert Rolle, of Heanton-Sackville, anceftor of Lord Rolle, and died in 1661. He erected, in the church of Wear-GifTard, a very large and elaborate monument to his grandfather and grandmother, Hugh and Elizabeth, his father, John, and his mother, Maria, with the following infcriptions : — Memoriale Hugonis Fortefcue Arm. et Elizabethan ux : fil. Johis Chichefter Eq. itemque Johis Fortefcue eorum fil. Arm : et Marias ux : fil. Humphredi Speccot de Thornbury Arm : funt hi ab Johe Fortefcue Equite Duce Caftri de Meaux in Gall, fub H. 5 10 oriundi qui pragfepia Fortefcutorum de Winfton Devon, ortus. habuit fil. Johem. fummum Juftic : et Cancell. fub H. 6 t0 . fepultum Ebertomas Gloceft 1 . familia quidem perantiqua et etiamnum felici fobole propagata. Sepulti funt Hugo Aug. 2 0 . 1600. Elizabetha May 7 0 . 1630. Johes April 5 0 . 1605. Maria April ii°. 1637. Stay (Reader), ftay, this ftructure feems t'invite, Thy wand'ring eyes on it to fix thy fighte ; In this pile's fummitie thou may'ft defcrie Heaven's all beholding and all guiding eye, That fheds his benedictions gracious beames Of Love and goodnefle on thefe fruitful ftreames Of numerous Iflue ftrong from Nuptial tyes With various ancient worthy families. Here is in briefe prefented to thy view The long-lined race of honoured Fortescue Combined in holy rites on Time's fair fcrole With Chichefter, then Speccot, laft with Rolle, And long and wide may sacred Grace and Fame Produce and propagate this generous name, That it may brooke (what honour gave in field), Le Fortescu the ftrong and lafting fhield, Family of Caftlehill. 131 A fhield not only theyr own right to fence But alfo to repell wrong's violence, Which that it may accordingly be done Pray (Reader) pray God be their sheild and sunne. HUGO . FORTESCVE . SCVTIGER . SVPERSTES . VIR . MARIE . ROLLE . ISTUC . FIERI . FECIT . HONORIS . CAVSA. Hugh Fortefcue 1 had iflue an eldeft Ton, John, who died young. Colonel Robert Fortefcue, the fecond fon, who fucceeded to the family eftates, was born in 16 17, married flrft, Grace, daughter of Sir Bevil Grenville, of Stowe, by whom he had a daughter, Grace, married to Sir Halfwell Tynte. His fecond wife was Sufannah, daughter of Sir John Northcote, by whom he alfo had one daughter, Elizabeth, married to George Horner, Efquire, and had iflue. Colonel Fortefcue, by his will proved June 6, 1677,"' bequeaths "fifty or fixty pounds to be employed by my truftees (Sir Halfwell Tynte and others), in the new polifhing and adorning the monument in the Parifh Church of Ebrington, of Sir John Fortefcue, Knight, fometime Lord Chancellor of England, my worthy and renowned anceftor." He muft have died in the year 1675, becaufe, at the date of his will, in January of that year, his wife was fuppofed to be with child, and was Mill fo fuppofed when her hufband died. The teftator leaves all his eftates in Devon, Somerfet, Gloucefterihire, and Wiltftiire to his male iflue if fuch fhould be born ; if no fon be born, then to his brothers Arthur, Edmund, and Samuel fucceflively. There was no fon, and Arthur of Penwarne, the next brother, fucceeded. We fhall return to him prefently. It may be obferved that the foregoing mention of eftates of the Fortefcues in Wiltfhire is the firft fince the Chancellor's time, who acquired fome in that county, probably thofe now referred to. Edmund Fortefcue, fourth fon of Hugh by Mary Rolle, married Sarah, daughter and heir of Henry Aland, of Waterford, Efq., and had two fons ; of whom the eldeft, Edmund, of Speccot, died unmarried in 1704, having taken the additional name of Aland; and the fecond fon, John, became Lord Fortefcue of Credan, and will be mentioned further on. Hugh, fifth fon of Hugh and Mary, married a lady whofe name has not furvived, (butwho, when a widow, married Thomas D'Oyley, Efq.,) and had a fon John. Jofeph, fixth fon of Hugh by Mary Rolle, died without iflue. Samuel, their youngeft fon, was ftyled of Ckevt or Clift, in the parifh of Weare-Giffard ; he married Mary Yeo, and left iflue, at his death in 168 1, his eldeft fon John of Cleeve, who died in 1731 ; 3 and three daughters, a fecond fon, George, having died young before his father. Sec the l'oft-Mortem Inquifition. 1 Stcmm. Fort. J See Pedigree. I 3 2 Family of Cafilehill. Of the four fifters of the feven brothers above recorded, Elizabeth married Sir George Chudleigh of Afhton, Baronet. The names and marriages of the others will be found in the Pedigree. We now return to Arthur Fortefcue, fecond furviving fon of Hugh Fortefcue by Mary Rolle. He was feated at Penwarne in Cornwall, during his elder brother's life. He married Barbara, daughter of John Elford, of Shepfton, Efquire, and had iflue by her, four fons. Hugh, the eldeft, of whom hereafter, John of Penwarne, fecond fon, ferved as High Sheriff of Cornwall in the year 1741 ; married Amy, daughter of Sir Peter Fortefcue, of Wood, Baronet, 1 but had no iflue by her. Arthur of St. Endar, and of Penwarne, third fon, married Dinah, daughter of John Yerman of Lamornan, in Cornwall, 2 and had a fon, John of Penwarne, who died in 1776; and Jofeph, fourth fon, Clerk of the Peace for the County of Devon, for whofe marriage and iflue fee the Pedigree. I do not know if any male reprefentative of the Penwarne family now exifts. In Exeter Cathedral is a tablet to Matilda, widow of Vice- Admiral Peard, eldeft daughter of William Fortefcue, Efquire, of Penwarne. She died in 1 847, aged fixty-two. Hugh Fortefcue of Filleigh, eldeft fon of Arthur by Barbara Elford, married, firft, Bridget, only daughter and heir of Hugh Bofcawen, Efquire, of Tregothnan, in Cornwall, by his wife the Lady Margaret, fifth daughter of Theophilus Clinton, Earl of Lincoln ; by whom he had, befides four fons who died in infancy or childhood, three fons and two daughters, viz. the eldeft fon, Hugh, afterwards Earl Clinton, of whom hereafter ; fecond, Bofcawen, born 1701, and died 17 1 9 ; third, Theophilus, born in 1707 — he ferved in Par- liament for the borough of Barnftaple in the two fucceflive Parliaments which met in 1727 and 1734, and in 1741 was chofen a knight of the fhire for Devonfhire, and fo continued until his death in March 1745. The daughters were Margaret, born in 1693, and died in 1760, unmarried ; and Bridget, born 1693, and died in 1743, alfo unmarried. Mrs. Fortefcue died in 1708; and her hufband, Hugh Fortefcue, married fecondly, Lucy, daughter to Matthew, firft Lord Aylmer; and by her, who died February 18, 1767, aged eighty, had iflue, a fon Matthew, born 1 7 1 9, who became the fecond Lord Fortefcue on the death of his half-brother the Earl Clinton ; and a daughter Lucy, born about 17 17, who married, in 1742, George Lyttleton, afterwards firft Lord Lyttleton, diftinguifhed as an hiftorian, poet, ftatefman, and Chriftian philofopher; with him fhe lived in a ftate of wedded happinefs, which became almoft proverbial, founded upon the folid bafis of the virtues and piety with which they were both endowed. This happy union, however, was fevered by her death in childbed, in the year 1746. She left an only fon, Thomas, afterwards fecond Lord Lyttleton, who, in his life and death, was a Angular and melancholy contraft to his 1 His Will. 2 Stem. Fort, for moft of this. Family of Cajllehill. i33 parents. It happens that defcriptions of the characters and laft moments of both father and fon are in print ; the one in Johnfon's " Lives of the Poets," the other probably in feveral works ; certainly in " Notes and Queries ; " and both will repay the trouble of reference. 1 The good Lucy Lyttleton was buried in the church of Over Arley in Worcefterfhire ; but her monument is in that of Hagley in the fame county, with two infcriptions, in Englifh and Latin, which, as they are not unworthy of the pen of her hufband, whom Johnfon has admitted among the poets of England, it will be proper to infert here. To the Memory of Lucy Lyttleton, Daughter of Hugh Fortefcue of Filleigh In the County of Devon, Efq., Father to the prefent Earl of Clinton j By Lucy his Wife, The Daughter of Matthew Lord Aylmer, Who departed this Life the 19th of Jan. 1746-7, Aged twenty-nine, Having employed the (hortTerm afligned to her here In the uniform Practice of Religion and Virtue. Made to engage all hearts and charm all eyes ; Though meek, magnanimous ; though witty, wife ; Polite as all her life in Courts had been ; Yet good as Ihe the world had never feen ; The noble fire of an exalted mind, With gentleft female tendernefs combined ; Her fpeech was the melodious voice of Love ; Her fong the warbling of the vernal grove, Her eloquence was fweeter than her fong, Soft as her heart, and as her reafon ftrong. Her form each beauty of her mind exprell, Her mind was virtue by the Graces drelr. 1 Notes and Queries, 2nd Series, vols. v. and vi. Lord Littleton's other children by Mil* Fortefcue were Lucy, married, in 1767, to Arthur Earl of Mount Norris, and Mary, who died an infant. Lord Lyttleton married, as his lecond wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Rich, by whom he had no iflTue i34 Family of CaftlehilL M. s. Lucije Lyttleton Ex antiquiflimorum Fortefcutorum genere ortae ; Quae annos nata viginti novem, Formae eximiae, indolis optimae, ingenii maximi, Supra aetatem et fexum exculti, Sine fuperbia laude florens, Morte immatura Vitam pie, pudice, fanfte adtam In tertio puerperio claufit, Decimo nono die Januarii, Anno Domini 1746-7. Fleta etiam ab ignotis. Uxori dile&iffimo Quinquennio feliciffimo conjugii nondum abfoluto Immenfi amoris ac defiderii hoc quale cunque monumentum Pofuit Georgius Lyttleton, Adhuc eheu ! fuperftes, At in eodem fepulchro ipfe olim fepeliendus, Et per Jefum Chriftum Salvatorem fuum, Ad vitae melioris diuturniora gaudia Lachrymis in aeternum abfterfis, Se cum ilia refurredturum confidens. Hugh Fortefcue of Filleigh fat in Parliament, from the year 1689 all through the reign of William III., until the clofe of the Parliament elected in the feventh of Queen Anne in 1708 ; during that time he reprefented firft Tregony, 1 then Grampound and Truro in fuc- ceflion, then Tregony again, and finally St. Michael's. It is likely that fome at leaft of thefe Cornim boroughs were under the influence of his wife's family the Bofcawens, whofe heirefs me became. 2 The following letter, dated at Tregothnan in 1693, from the Cornim member to Robert Harley, afterwards the great minifter and Earl of Oxford, favours this fuppofition. The term " brother " muft be there ufed to Harley as a member of a club, of which the writer was alfo a member. There was a cuftom in the " October Club " and others 3 by which the members thus addrefled each other. "Tregothnan, M'rch 8th, 93. " Dear Brother, « By y r votes I find you've fent for all ye members up to attend ye fervice of ye houfe. I'm forry that tis almoft impoffible for me to come up, for my wife (who expected to have 1 Willis's Notitia Parliamentaria. 2 pjarl. MS., 7524, f. 66. 3 See Rofcoe's Life of Pope, i. p. 58. Family of CaJllehilL 135 had a childe three weeks fince) houlds out yet, but tis judged by ye flcilfull that me will be brought to bed in few days ; and is now very ill ; and you knowe t'will looke very unkind to leave her at fuch a juncture, and may be ill refented by her neareft relations that I fhoud doe fuch a thing; fo confequently be very prejuditiall to my intreft ; you knowe what I meane; this therefore is to requeft ye favour of my D Bro r Harley that he would ufe his intreft. that I may be excufed : if you thinke it convenient to fpeake to him I'd afke ye fame favour from S r Chrifto. Mufgrave in particular ; w ch will infinitely oblige " Y r affectionate humble Ser'. "J. Fortescue.' " AdrefTed : For Robert Harley, Efqr. " A Member of Parlm 1 . " London." 2 Hugh Fortefcue, whofe will is dated January 5, 1714* died in 17 19, and was fucceeded by his eldeft fon, Hugh, born in 1695 ; who, in confequence of the death, without iflue, of Edward, thirteenth Baron Clinton and fifth Earl of Lincoln, obtained that ancient barony, which, on the 1 6th of March, 1721, was called out of the abeyance into which it had fallen in the year 1692, by a writ of fummons to him as fourteenth baron, in right of his mother Bridget Bofcawen, only child of Lady Margaret Clinton, youngeft daughter of Theophilus, twelfth Baron Clinton and fourth Earl of Lincoln. Lord Clinton was appointed, in 1 72 1, Lord Lieutenant and Cuftos Rotulorum of Devonfhire ; in 1723 he became a Lord of the Bedchamber to King George I., and a Knight of the Bath in 17 25. In 1733 he refigned his Lord Lieutenancy and place in the bedchamber; why he did fo does not appear. Horace Walpole fays that " foon after he received the Order of the Bath he went into oppo- fition, and left off his ribbon and ftar for one day, but thought better of it, and put them on the next."' 1 If the fame writer is correct, Lord Clinton was employed by the miniftry upon fomc negotiation with France in 1744. In 1746, July 5th, George II. created him Lord Fortefcue of Caftlehill, (with a fpecial remainder of the barony to his half-brother Matthew,) and Earl Clinton. Lord Clinton changed the name of his refidence from Filleigh, which it had fo long borne, to Caftlehill, which it now bears; he alfo rebuilt the houfe about K.D. 1740. The firft Earl Fortefcue, writing to Lyfons the topographer in January, [821, fays: 4 "This houfe was fo entirely altered infide and outfide by my uncle Lord Clinton (my father's half-brother), about eighty 1 I conclude that the copyift has written J. in place of H. for Hugh Fortefcue, who married Mifs Bofcawen of Trcgothnan, and had a child born in 1693. 2 Afterwards Earl of Oxford. 1 Walpole';. Letters (Cunningham), vol. i. p. 298. 4 Lyfons's Topographical Collections, Add. MS. 9427, f. lbo (Brit. Mus.). 136 Family of C aft lehill. years ago, that very little remains of the ancient houfe except its fite." The facfimile of an old print included in this volume mows the appearance of the former manfion. The Earl died May 3, 175 1, when that title became extinct, while his barony of Clinton went to his fifter Margaret, who, however, does not feem to have affumed the title, and at her death patted to Margaret Rolle, Countefs of Orford, grand-daughter of Lady Arabella Clinton fecond daughter of Theophilus fourth Earl of Lincoln before mentioned. Matthew Fortefcue of Filleigh, fon of Hugh by his fecond wife Lucy Aylmer, became, on his brother's death, fecond Lord Fortefcue. He married, in June, 1752, Anne, daughter of John Campbell, Efq., of Calder, in Scotland, and of Stackpole Court, in Pembrokefhire, anceftor of Earl Cawdor, and had iffue by her three fons and two daughters ; Hugh, the eldeft fon, who fucceeded his father; Matthew, the fecond fon, a captain in the Royal Navy, born April 12th, 1754, married, firft, in May, 1778, Henrietta, daughter of Colonel Archer, which lady died in 1794; fecondly, June 6th, 1795, Henrietta Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Hoare, Baronet, and widow of Sir Thomas Acland, Baronet. Captain Fortefcue had iflue by both wives, for which fee the Pedigree. He died in 1 842. John, 1 the third fon, born in 1733, died in 1755, unmarried. The two daughters of Matthew, fecond Lord Fortefcue, were Anne Lucy, who died in 1 841, and Sophia, who died in 1833, both unmarried. Their father died in 1785, and was fucceeded in his eftates and title by his eldeft fon, Hugh, born March 12, 1753. He was elected Member of Parliament for Beaumaris at the general election of 1784, but in July of the following year became by his father's death a member of the Houfe of Peers. He was for fome years Lord Lieutenant and Cuftos Rotulorum of Devonfhire. He married, on the 10th of May, 1782, Hefter, third daughter of the Right Honourable George Grenville, and fifter of George, Marquis of Buckingham. On the 15th of Auguft, 1789, he was promoted in the Peerage, being created Vifcount Ebrington of Ebrington, in Gloucefterfhire, the feat of his anceftor the Chancellor, and Earl Fortefcue. Lord Fortefcue died at Caftlehill on the 22nd of June, 1841, at the venerable age of eighty-eight years, during fifty-five of which he had been a member of the Houfe of Lords. I find, in fome correfpondence between this nobleman and Mr. Lyfons the topographer, the following paragraphs, which are interefting, as fhowing the numbers of the red deer on Exmoor at that time. In anfwer to queries, Lord Fortefcue, writing from Caftlehill on the 2nd of December, 1821, fays: — " The Stag-hunt comes very much within my knowledge, as I kept the hounds myfelf till within thefe three years, and then fent them over to Mr. Lucas, of Brecondown, who keeps them by fubfcription. The late Sir Thomas Acland and his father kept them before me, as did Mr. Baflett 1 Stemmata, and Lodge. Family of Caftlehill. 137 after the late Sir Thomas Acland's death. They were formerly kept by Mr. Dykes, the father-in-law of the firft Sir T. Acland. " 1 generally killed about ten flags in the year, and about double the number of hinds." And again, on the 1 2th of December : — " I don't know that I can add anything to the details I gave you on the fubject of the Stag-hunt in my laft. The deer are certainly found nocturnal, and inhabit the woods in this part of the country fouth of Exmoor, and likewife thofe in the vicinity of Purbeck and Dulverton on the other fide of Exmoor, which occafions their frequently leading us chafes acrofs the Foreft." Earl Fortefcue left iflue three fons and fix daughters : firft, Hugh, fecond Earl ; fecond, George Matthew, of Boconnoc in Cornwall, and of Dropmore, in Buckinghamfhire, born May 21, 1 79 1, married, February 19, 1833, Lady Louifa Elizabeth Ryder, fifth daughter of the firft Earl of Harrowby, and had iflue four fons, viz.: George Grenville, born January 2, 1835, died from the effects of an accident November 2, 1856; Hugh Granville, of the Coldftream Guards, born May 2, 1838, died November 19, 1875 ; Cyril Dudley, of the Coldftream Guards, born September 19, 1847; J onn Bevill, born November I, 1850; and four daughters, viz. : Louifa Sufan Anne, born November 14, 1833, died March 30, 1864, having married June 25, 1863, William Weftby Moore, Esq., fecond fon of the Right Honourable Richard Moore, Judge of the Queen's Bench in Ireland; Harriet Eleanor, born Auguft 19, 1836, married March 29, 1864, Rear-Admiral Auguftus Phillimore, R.N. ; Mary, born March 7, 1840; Elizabeth Frances, born September 17, 1843. The Honour- able George Matthew Fortefcue died at Boconnoc on the 14th of January, 1877, aged 85 years. This gentleman, who was much and defervedly refpected, inherited the eftates of his uncle, Lord Grenville, at Dropmore and elfewhere, upon the death, on the 13th of June, 1864, of Lady Grenville, the widow of that nobleman; and by the fame event Mr. Fortefcue fucceeded to Boconnoc and the other eftates of Lady Grenville which fhe had derived from her brother Thomas Pitt, fecond and laft Lord Camelford ; 1 John, the third fon of the firft Earl, born May 5, 1796, Canon and Prebendary of Worccfter Cathedral and Rector of Poltimore, married, in 1842, Sophia, daughter of the late Rev. Henry Neville, Rector of Cottefmore, Rutland, and had iffue : 1 Canon Fortefcue, who furvived his wife by only a few days (fhe having died December 29, 1868), died January 3, 1869, and was buried in the cloiftcrs of Worccfter Cathedral in the fame grave as that which had received the body of his wife only the day before his death. The daughters of the firft Earl Fortefcue were : firft, Hefter, born December 17, 1784, married, May 20, 1804, to Peter, feventh Lord King, died December, 1873 ; 2nd, Katherine, born 30th Auguft, 1786, married, June 24, 1820, to the Honourable Newton FeNowes, afterwards fourth Earl of Portfmouth, died April 17, 1854; third, Anne, born 3rd October, Sec the Pedigree. 2 Sec the Pedigree. T I3 8 Family of CaJllehilL 1787, married, in 18 14, to George Wilbraham, Efq., of Delamere Lodge, Chefhire, died February 28, 1864; fourth, Mary, born 15th September, 1792, married, 5th February, 1823, to Sir James Hamlyn Williams, Baronet, deceafed ; fifth, Eleanor, born 2nd April, 1798, died Auguft 12, 1874; fixth, Elizabeth, born 10th July, 1801, married, 27th Decem- ber, 1830, to Vifcount Courtenay, now 12th Earl of Devon, and died January 27, 1867. Hugh, Vifcount Ebrington and fecond Earl Fortefcue, was born February 13, 1783. He was educated at Eton, and at Brafenofe College, Oxford. In 1804 he was firft returned to the Houfe of Commons, being elected for Barnftaple. In December, 18 14, when travelling on the Continent but lately opened to the Englifh, he proceeded to Elba, where the great Napoleon was then in banifhment, and was fortunate in being invited on two occafions to a private interview and dinner, an account of which he afterwards publifhed. The freedom with which the ex-Emperor difcufled many adlions of his career makes the narrative unufually interefting. From 1820 to 1831 Lord Ebrington fat for Taviftock, a nd in the latter year he was chofen Knight of the Shire for the northern divifion of Devonfhire, which he continued to reprefent until he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on which occafion he was called up to the Houfe of Lords, in his father's barony of Fortefcue. He' held the high office of Lord Lieutenant until Sir Robert Peel's acceffion to office in 1841. In May of that year his father the firft Earl died, and Lord Ebrington became fecond Earl Fortefcue. From 1846 to 1850 he was Lord Steward of the Queen's Houfehold. He was a Knight of the Garter, Lord Lieutenant and Vice- Admiral of Devonfhire, and Colonel of the firft Devon militia. He married, firft, on the 4th July, 18 17, Lady Sufan Ryder, daughter of the firft Earl of Harrowby, by whom, who died July 30, 1827, he had ifTue, ift, Hugh, the prefent Earl, born April 4, 1818; 2nd, John William, born 1819, M.P. for Barnftaple, Lieut.-Colonel of the Eaft Devon Militia, died at Madeira in 1859 ; 3rd, Dudley Francis, born in 1820, M.P. for Andover, married, in 1852, Lady Camilla Eleanor Fellowes, daughter of the 4th Earl of Portfmouth. He married, 2ndly, in 1841, Elizabeth, daughter of Piers Geale, Efq., and widow of Sir Marcus Somerville, Bart. By this lady, who furvives him, he had no ifTue. He died at Exeter, 14th September, 1861, aged 78 years. Lord Fortefcue was a perfon of confiderable abilities, with a refined and accomplifhed mind. He was a confident and moft upright politician, held in high refpect as well by opponents as by friends ; while as a refident landlord and country gentleman he deferved and enjoyed the efteem of all. It may be truly faid here that in the Fortefcue family, which has flouriftied through fo many generations, few have been more diftinguifhed, and none more worthy than the late Earl Fortefcue. A ftatue to his memory ftands in the Caftle yard at Exeter with this Family of Cajllehill. J 39 infcription: " This memorial, marking the love of friends and the refpect of all, was erected 1863." Hugh, Vifcount Ebrington fucceeded as third Earl on the death of his father. He fat in the Houfe of Commons for Plymouth from 1841 to 1852. He was a Lord of the Treafury in 1846 and 1847, and Secretary to the Poor Law Board from 1847 to 1851. In 1854 he again became a member of the fame Houfe, fitting for Marylebone from 1854 to 1859, anc * m December of the latter year he was fummoned to the Houfe of Lords in his father's barony. He married, in 1847, on tne 1 If h or * March, Georgina Augufta, eldeft daughter of the Right Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel G. L. Dawfon-Damer, uncle of the prefent Earl of Portar- lington, and by that lady, who died on the 8th of December, 1866, he has iflue feven fons and feven daughters : r, Hugh, Vifcount Ebrington, born 1 6th April, 1854; 2. Seymour John, born February, 1856 ; 3. Lionel Henry Dudley, born November, 1857 ; 4. Arthur Grenville, born December, 1858; 5. John William, born December, 1859; 6. Charles Grenville, born October, 1861 ; 7. William George Damcr. The daughters are: 1. Sufun Elizabeth, born September, 1848 ; 2. Mary Eleanor, born October, 1849 ; 3. Lucy Cathe- rine, born March, 1851, married, Auguft 3, 1874, to Sir Michael Edward Hicks-Beach, Bart., M.P. for Eaft Gloucefterfture, and Secretary of State for the Colonies ; 4. Georgiana Seymour, born June, 1852, married, September 26, 1877, to Lord Erneft Seymour, 3rd fon of the 5th Marquis of Hertford; 5. Eleanor Hefter, born December, 1862, died Septem- ber, 1864 ; 6. Alice Sophia, born June, 1864 ; 7. Frances Blanche, born Auguft, 1865. There is a branch of the Caftlehill family, of which, becaufe of the diftinction attained by one of its members, it will be proper to give a particular account. Lord Fortescue of Credan. Hugh Fortefcue, of Filleigh, who married, in 16 12, Mary Rolle, of Hcanton-Sack- ville, had, as we have already mentioned, a third furviving fon, Edmund, ftyled "of London," who married Sarah, eldeft daughter of Henry Aland, of Watcrford, Efq. This lady became, by the death, without iflue, of her only brother Henry, in the year 1683, the pofTeflbr of the eftates of her family in Ireland. By her Edmund Fortefcue had three fons : I. Edmund, who took the additional name of Aland; he refided at Speccot, and died unmarried in 1704; 2. John, afterwards Lord Fortefcue of Credan; and, 3. Henry, born 1678, and died unmarried, in 1702. Edmund Fortefcue died in 168 1. He had purchafed, in 1670, the manor of Bierton 1 in Aylefbury Hundred in Bucks, which defcended to his fons and grandfon. Lipfcomb's Buck., ii. IOO. 140 Family of Cafilehill. John, his fecond fon, fucceeding to his mother's property on the death of his elder brother, took her name after his own. He was born March 7th, 1670. In 1688 he entered the Middle Temple, but afterwards removed to the Inner Temple, of which he was chofen Reader in 1716. 1 He was returned to Parliament as member for Midhurft in the firft Parliament of George I. s but foon left the Houfe of Commons for the Bench. On October the 22nd, 17 14, two months after the acceffion of George I., he was appointed Solicitor-General to the Prince of Wales, afterwards George II.; and on December 21, 17 1 5, 2 he became, on the refignation of Sir Nicholas Lechmere, Solicitor-General to George I. This place he held only until the beginning of 1 717, being, on the 24th of January in that year, raifed to a feat on the Bench as a Baron of the Exchequer, upon the death of Sir Samuel Dodd, and knighted. 4 On May 19, 17 18, 3 he was removed to the Court of King's Bench, and continued one of its judges until the acceffion of George II. On the nth of June, 1727, he was fuperfeded, but fpeedily reftored to the office of judge, becoming, on January 28, 1 728/ a Juftice of the Common Pleas ; thus going through the three courts of law. In this laft he may be faid to have fpent the remainder of his life, continuing to difcharge his duties until Trinity Term of 1746, when, being now old, and fo infirm as to be unable, even in fummer, to go circuit, he refigned. Fofs informs us that four years earlier he had afked for his retiring penfion, and wifhed to become again a member of Parliament. In Auguft following he was, by patent dated the 15th Auguft, 1746, " in confideration of his merits and fervices," created a Peer of Ireland, with the title of Baron Fortefcue of Credan, the name of a headland on the eaftern more of Waterford harbour, and forming part of the Aland eftates, which included feveral townlands in that portion of Waterford county. Some fuch diftinclive addition was called for by the creation, only a month before, of Earl Clinton as Baron Fortefcue, with remainder to his half-brother, as we have feen. Lord Fortefcue did not long furvive his retirement, dying on the 19th of December, 1746, aged 76 years. By his will, dated 29th September, 1746, 5 he names "his kinfman, William Fortefcue, Mafter of the Rolls, as one of his Truftees and Exors," with " his trufty friend, Dormer Parkhurft, of Hawk Hall, Staffbrdftiire, and his dear wife Elizabeth." He leaves his eftates of Knollefhill and Lambourne to his fon Dormer for life, with remainder to Lord Clinton (Hugh Fortefcue), and 50/. to the poor of South Molton, and the fame fum to the poor of Bideford. The Mafter of the Rolls was a diftant kinfman ; but as they were quite contemporary in their career, fitting, indeed, for a time as judges in the fame court, they probably were intimate friends. The following anecdote has been preferved in the " Conveyancer's Guide " : — 1 Fofs, Judges, viii. 99. * Collins' Peerage fays 1716. 3 Beatfon, Polit. Index, ii. 313. 4 Chalmers, Biog. Dicl 5 Stem. Fort., p. 105. Fa?niiy of Caftlehill. 141 " The Baron had one of the ftrangeft nofes ever feen ; its fhape refembled much the trunk of an elephant, 1 Brother, brother,' faid the Baron to the counfcl, ' you are handling the cafe in a very lame manner.' ' Oh no, my Lord,' was the reply. ' Have patience with me, and I will make it as plain as the nofe in your Lordfhip's face.' " 1 I have fomewhere met with a different verfion of this ftory, where a very obfcure cafe was faid by the counfel "to be as plain as the nofe on the judge's face" — a reading which his portraits favour rather than the other. Lord Fortefcue left behind him a very refpedable reputation as an excellent lawyer and an able and upright judge. His judgments are on record in the Report books of the time. Fofs gives this example of his " manner on the bench," from a cafe called " Bentley's cafe." " The laws of God and man," he faid, " both give the party an opportunity to make his defence, if he has any. I remember to have heard it obferved by a very learned man, that even God himfelf did not pafs fentence upon Adam before he was called to make his defence. ( Adam (fays God), where art thou ? Haft thou not eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou ftiouldeft not eat ? ' and the fame queftion was put to Eve alfo." He was, moreover, very learned in the Saxon language and literature, and has left behind fome refults of his ftudies in the Prefaces to both his works, where he infifts on the impor- tance of a knowledge of the laws and cuftoms of our Saxon forefathers to all who ftudy the conftitution of England. He had a deep and deferved veneration for his anceftor the Chancellor, whofe tone and ftyle he copies when treating of the excellence of the legal inftitu- tions of this country, as compared with thofe of other nations. Some authorities fay, I do not know on what grounds, that Lord Fortefcue was educated at Oxford. His name occurs in the lift of Oxford graduates only as a D.C.L. by diploma, dated May 4, 1733, without the mention of a college; and it will be feen in that document, given at the end of this chapter, that there is no reference to his being previoufly a member of the Univerfity. The language of the diploma is, as ufual, highly complimentary. After likening him to his great anceftor in talents, learning, love of his country, and loyalty to his king, the chancellor, mafters, and fcholars go on to acknowledge fome fpecial fervice which, by a decifion in its favour, he rendered to the Univerfity, in thefe words: "Ut dum Ampli- tudini et Privilegiorum Incolumitate fua,* Curia: prudenter confulit, idem, pro fingulari fua moderatione et Abftinentia, Jura concefla Noftra Nobis non invideat." He was a Fellow of the Royal Society. His works are — a Preface and Notes to the Treatife " On Abfolute and Limited Monarchy, by Chancellor Fortefcue," which he edited, and printed for the firft time, (this 1 Conveyancer's Guide, p. 107, quoted by Fofs, from whole " Lives of the Judges " much of the foregoing information is derived. j 42 Family of CaJllehilL volume was publifhed in London in 17 14, and a fecond edition in 17 19); and "Reports on Seleft Cafes in all the Courts of Weftminfter Hall," with a long and learned preface, in one volume folio, publifhed by Lintot in the Savoy, in 1748. Lord Fortefcue here gives his opinion at length upon a queftion referred by King George I. to twelve judges, as to his right to the guardianfhip of his grandchildren, the children of George, Prince of Wales. This was called, " The Grand Opinion for the Prerogative." As the junior, he is the firft to deliver his judgment. He decides for the king, although, as he himfelf obferves, "he had been Solicitor-General to the Prince of Wales, and one of the firft officers in his fervice." In this he is followed by the majority, the numbers being 10 to 2. Poflibly this decifion may- account for Lord Fortefcue's difmilTal from the Bench when the prince became George II., a fuppofition, however, not very favourable to that king, as, if true, he muft have kept up his refentment for thirteen years. He was, neverthelefs, fatisfied by a not very fevere punifh- ment, as the fuperfeded judge was foon reftored. It may be remarked that his appointment as baron bears date the very fame day as that on which the judges met for the fecond time on the foregoing queftion ; they had met firft, two days before, on the 22nd of January. I find by a reference to the MS. correfpondence of Mr. Francis Gregor, the editor and tranflator of Be Laudibus Legum Anglic, kindly allowed by the prefent owner of Trewarthen- nick, that Lord Fortefcue was frequently confulted by him, and that he fuggefted to Mr. Gregor feveral alterations and emendations. This correfpondence bears dates of the years 1731 to 1737. He married twice, each time into families of diftinguifhed lawyers. His firft wife was Grace, daughter of Lord Chief Juftice Pratt, great-great-grandfather of the prefent Marquis of Camden. By her he had two fons and one daughter, 1 who all died before their father. The eldeft fon, John, was born in 1722. He was called to the bar, but died at the age of thirty-one, at Tours, in France, December 9th, 1743, as recorded by an infcription over his grave in the church of Stapleford-Abbots, now paved over, which goes on to fay that "he was brought over thither out of a Popifh country for a decent Proteftant burial." Lord Fortefcue married a fecond wife on the 29th of December, 1721, viz. Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Juftice Dormer, a Judge of the King's Bench, and formerly, in 1701, member of Parliament for the County of Bucks, who afterwards fucceeded to the eftates of his nephew, Sir William Dormer ; and Lady Fortefcue of Credan then became a co-heir to her father ; and thus her fon, the fecond lord, for a time pofTefTed part of the Dormer eftate in Buckinghamshire, namely, the Manor of Lee Grange, until he loft it by the fuit of a male relation of Judge Dormer's. 2 By Mifs Dormer, Lord Fortefcue had an only fon, Dormer, born in 1722. She died in See Monument in Stapleford Church. 2 Lipfcomb's Bucks, vol. i. 415. jqmm wmsT lbwb mmesotie m cwebam ji Jitstic& erf the, Court of Commx/ru Fleas. Died, A D. 1746. Family of Caftlehill. >43 April, 1748, furviving her hufband one year and four months, and was buried by his fide in the chancel of Stapleford-Abbots' church. The old Judge had, many years before his death, eftablifhed himfelf in Efiex. He bought from the Barefoot Family the Manor of Lambourn, in the parifh of that name, and Hundred of Ongar ; and afterwards, in the neighbouring parifh of Stapleford-Abbots, the manfion of Knowles, or Knollfhill, formerly the feat of Henry Spicer, Bifhop of Norwich. This houfe, with its grounds, he, "by feveral improvements, rendered a delightful place," fays Morant. 1 It flood on a high ground about a mile from Stapleford church, overlooking the narrow remnant of Hainhault Foreft, which in the Judge's time fpread far around. The original manfion is fuppofed to have been built in the fixteenth century. Wright, in his hiftory of EfTex, mentions that the ornaments of wood, and the date 1 571, lead to that conclufion. He adds, "there are alfo feveral Proverbs and moral fentences on panels near the ceiling (in one of the rooms), and well-executed portraits of the Family of Fortefcue have been preferved." Soon after the death of the fecond and laft lord, Knollfhill was fold, in 1782, to the Rev. Edward Lockwood, whofe descendants became Lockwood-Percival, and it now (in 1865) ' s tnc property of Colonel Mark Wood. It is now many years fince the greater part of the manfion was pulled down, the remainder being ufed as a farm-houfe. This, too, including the old room juft mentioned, was lately (about 1861 or 1862) demolifhed, and the pictures difperfed by auction in 1 8 6 j . Three of them, namely, a good portrait in the ftyle of Sir Godfrey Kncller, of Dormer, fecond Lord Fortefcue, a portrait of the firfr lord, and one of Lady Fortefcue, his fecond wife, I have been enabled to obtain from their purchafers in the neigh- bourhood. The lafl traces of the houfe have now difappeared. In May, 1 864, while I was on the fpot, workmen were employed in taking up the brick foundations, of which a few ftill remained clofe to the new brick farm-houfe. From thence, on the occafion mentioned, I went about half a mile down a ftecp waggon- track through the patch of foreft below Knollfhill, where, in the valley half-way to the oppofite height on which the church ftands, is an old charity fchool houfe. I Iere the maftcr receives 25/. yearly from the endowment. His fcholars confifled of about thirty boys- Over the door of the houfe is the following infeription: — " Glory to God. Knolls-Hill Free School for teaching poor children to read and write, erected and endowed at the fole expenfe of Sir John Fortefcue of Knoll-Hill, in this parifh, Knight, formerly Solicitor-General to King George II., fometime Baron of the Exchequer, afterwards a Judge 1 Morant's Eflcx, i. 172. 144 Family of Cajllehill. of the Common Pleas, Doctor of Laws, and Fellow of the Royal Society, in the year of our Lord Chrift, 1734, in the reign of the fame mod excellent Prince." Dormer, the fecond Lord, never married. He died in 178 1, and was buried with his parents in Stapleford church. On the north wall of the porch there is a fmall tablet, with the following infcription : — " Near this place are depofited the mortal remains of the Right Hon bIe . Dormer For- tefcue-Aland, Baron Fortefcue of the Kingdom of Ireland, who departed this life on the 9 th day of March, 178 1, in the 59 th year of his age. " His Lordfhip was the only fon of Sir John Fortefcue- Aland, Lord Fortefcue of Credan, fome time one of the Juftices of the Court of Common Pleas, by Elizabeth, his fecond wife, daughter of Robert Dormer, Efquire, one of the Juftices of the Court of King's Bench. John, Lord Fortefcue, died in December, 1746, and Elizabeth, Lady Fortefcue, his wife, in April, 1748, and their remains are buried in this church. tc The firft wife of the faid John, Lord Fortefcue, was Grace, daughter of the late Lord Chief-Juftice Pratt, and by her he had two fons and a daughter, who all died before their father." The eftates of Lord Fortefcue of Credan pa/Ted, under the will of the firft Lord, to the heir of Earl Clinton, who was Lord Fortefcue of Caftlehill ; and the Aland property is ftill pofTefTed by the prefent Earl Fortefcue, as he has informed me. 1 Appendix to Chap. IX. A. Inquifition upon the Death of Martin Fortefcue. Inquifition poft mortem, 12 Edw. IV. N°. 39. May 12 th , 1472. Inquisicio capta apud Toryngton magna in Comitatu predi&o duodecimo die Maii Anno Regni Regis Edwardi quarti duodecimo, coram Johanne Perpons Efcaetore ditSli domini Regis in Comitatu pre- dict, virtute brevis ejufdem domini Regis eidem Efcaetori directi et huic Inquifitioni confuti per facramentum Humfridi Courtenay armigeri, Roberti Budokyfhyde arm. Johannis Speccote, armigeri, Willelmi Merwode, Ricardi Spenfer, Thome Broune, Henrici Southcote, Willelmi Yeo de Atte- worthy, Johannis Colvine, Johannis Paflew, Willelmi Cruys, Walteri Bruggeman et Johannis Stephen, Qui dicunt fuper facramentum fuum quod Johannes Fortefcue miles et Ifabellauxor ejus fuerunt feifiti de manerio de Combe cum pertinentiis et quatuor mefuagiis, uno columbario, tribus gardinis, fex F erlingis terre quinque acris prati, duodecimo acris bofci et viginta et feptem folidatis et ofto denariis redditus et redditu unius cere de cera precii duodecim denariorum et unius libra cere cum pertinentiis 1 Letter from Lord Fortefcue, Nov. 6, 1865. I in Holbeton, Overcombe, Nythercombe, Battok-kyfbourgh, Efford et Alfton in Comitatu predicto, videlicet, idem Johannes Forte/cue in dominico fuo ut de feodo et eadem Ifabella ad terminum vite fue. Et fic inde feifitus per quandam finem in Curia Henrici fexti nuper de facto et non de jure Regis Anglie, anno regni fui tricefimo quarto coram Johanne Pryfott et fociis fuis Jufticiariis ejufdem Regis de Banco et aliis tunc ibi prefentibus de eifdem manerio tenemento et redditu inter Martinum Forte/cue et Elizabetbam uxorem ejus querentes, et dictos Jobannem Fortefcue milite et Ifabellam uxorem ejus deforcientes levatam, idem Johannes Fortefcue idem Johannes Fortefcue et ljabella concefterunt predicts Martina et Elizabethe predictum manerium, tenementum et redditum, cum pertinentiis, et ilia eis reddiderunt in eadem Curia, habendum et tenendum eifdem Martino et Elizabethe abfque impeticione vafti de eifdem Johanne Fortefcu et Ifabella et heredibus ipfius Johannis tota vita ipfius Elizabethe. Reddendo inde per annum unam rofam ad feftum Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptiftc pro omni fervicio confuetudine et exaccione ad predictos Jobannem et Ifabellam et heredibus ipfius Johannis pertinentibus. Et poft deceflum ipfius Elizabethe predictum manerium, tenementum et redditus cum pertinentiis integre remaneant predicto Martino et heredibus quos idem Martinus de corpore predicte Elizabethe procreaverit. Tenendum de prefatis Johanne Fortefcue et Ifabella et heredibus ipfius Johannis per predictum fervicium ficut predictum eft imperpetuum. Et fi contingat quod idem Martinus obierit fine heredibus de corpore predicte Elizabethe procreatis tunc poft deceflum ipfius Martini predictum manerium, tenementum et redditus cum pertinentiis integre rcvertcntur ad predictos Jobannem et Ifabellam et heredes ipfius Johannis Fortefcu imperpetuum, virtutc cujus finis iidem Martinus et Elizabetba ut in jure ejufdem Elizabethe fuerunt inde feiiiti in dominico fuo ut de libcro tenemento. Et poftea dicta Ifabella obiit. Et eciam dicunt quod eadem manerium tenemento et redditus tenentur de predicto Johanne Forte/cu milite per fidelitatcm et redditum dicte Rofe pro omnibus ferviciis et demandis. Et ulterius dicunt quod iidem Martinus et Elizabetba feifiti fuerunt ut in jure ejufdem Elizabethe in dominico fuo ut de feodo de manerio de Weregyftard ac de advocacione ecclcfie Sancte Trinitatis de Weregyftard cidem manerio pertinente. Et de manerio de Eltbokelond ac de advocacione ccclefie Sancti Michaelis Archangeli eidem manerio pertinente. Et de manerio de Killcgh ac de advo- cacione ccclefic beate Marie eidem manerio pertinente. Et de maneriis de Lamertone, Bokclond Eillegh et Brodebray. Ac de duabus mefuagiis et centum acris terrc cum pertinentiis in Hertelegh. Et de tribus mefuagiis et ducentis acris terrc cum pertinentiis vocatis Londefyende juxta Criditon. Et de quatuor mefuagiis et tricentum acris terre cum pertinentiis in Bredewicke yerde et Fen. Et de duabus mefuagiis et fexaginta acris terre cum pertinentiis in Bredcwike yerde et Mukford. Et ulterius dicunt quod didtum manerium de Wercgiftard tenctur de Georgio Duce Clarencie per fideli- tatcm pro omnibus ferviciis. Et quod idem manerium valet per annum in omnibus exitibus fuis ultra reprifas xx 1 '. Et quod dicta advocacio ccclefie de Wercgiftard prcdicta nichil valet per annum ultra reprifas. Et quod dictum manerium de Ertbokcland cum fuis pertinentiis tenctur de Anna, Ducifl'a Exonie per fervicium militare. Et quod idem manerium valet per annum in omnibus exitibus fuis ultra reprifas C\ Et quod dida advocacio ecclefic de Eftbokelond predida nichil valet per annum ultra reprifas. Et quod dictum manerium de Fillegh cum fuis pertinentiis tenctur de dido Georgio, Duce Clarencie ut de honore fuo de Okchampton per fervicium militare. Et quod idem manerium valet per annum in omnibus exitibus fuis ultra reprifas x 1 '. Et quod dicta advocacio ccclefie de Fillegh predida nichil per annum ultra reprifas. Et quod dictum manerium de Lamerton tenetur de dido Georgio Duce Clarencie ut de honore fuo de Plympton per fidelitatem pro omnibus ferviciis. Etquod idem manerium valet per annum in omnibus exitibus fuis ultra reprifas xx' 1 . Etquoddidum manerium 146 Family of CafilehilL de Bokelond Fillegh ac di&ae terrae et tenementa in Hertlegh tenentur de di£ta Ducifla Exonieper fer- vicium militare. Et quod idem manerium terre et tenementa valent per annum in omnibus exitibus fuis ultra reprifas x u . Et quod diclum manerium de Brodebray tenetur de Fulcone Fitz-Waren per fidelitatem pro omnibus ferviciis. Et quod idem manerium valet per annum in omnibus exitibus fuis ultra reprifas x". Et quod di£te terre et tenementa vocate Londefyende tenentur de Johanne Arundell milite per fidelitatem pro omnibus ferviciis. Et quod valent per annum in omnibus exitibus fuis ultra reprifas iiij". Et quod di£te terre et tenementa in Bredewike yerde et Fen tenentur de Johanne Cholewill per fervicium militare. Et quod valent per annum in omnibus exitibus fuis ultra reprifas iiij''. Et quod di£te terre et tenementa in Mukford tenentur de eodem Johanne Cholewill per fidelitatem pro omnibus ferviciis. Et quod valent per annum in omnibus exitibus fuis ultra reprifas xl s . Et ulterius dicunt quod idem Martinus nulla alia neque plurima terras feu tenementa tenuit de di<5to domino Rege nunc nec de aliquo alio in dominico neque in fervicio in Comitatu predicto die quo obiit. Et quod idem Martinus obiit in fefto Santti Martini in Yeme ultimo preterito et diSia EU%abetha eum fupervixit et ad hue fuperjiites eft et feifitam exiftit de omnibus maneriis, mefuagiis, terris, tene- mentis redditibus et advocationibus predicts cum fuis pertinentiis in forma predi&a. Et quod quidem Johannes Fortefcu eft filius et heres diSti Martini propinquior. Et eft etatis duodecim Annorum et Amplius. In cujus rei teftimonium Juratores predi&i prefentibus figilla fua appofuerunt. B. Lord Forte/cue of Credans Diploma of D.C.L. Oxford. Cancellarius, Magiftri et Scholares Univerfitatis Oxon. omnibus ad quos prefentes literae per- venerint Salutem in Domino Sempiternam. Cum eum in finem Gradus Academici a Majoribus noftris prudenter inftituti fuerint, ut viri de Academica, de Ecclefia, de Principe, de Republica optime meriti, feu in gremio Noftrae Matris educati, feu aliunde bonarum artium Difciplinis eruditi, litis Infignibus a Literatorum vulgo fecernerentur ; fciatis quod Nos, ea fold qua poftumus via., Gradu Do£toris in Jure Civili libenter ftudiofequ ; conceflb, teftamur quanti facimus Johannem Fortefcue Militem e Curia Communium Placitorum Jufticiarium Juris-peritiffimum, mira femper in has Mufarum fedes benevolentia propendentem, nec minorem inde reportantem ; Virum perantiqua Illius Johannis Fortefcue Militis, qui regnante Henrico Sexto, Summi Jufticiarii Officium, tanta cum dignitate per viginti annos implevit, ftirpe ortum ; et quod pluris aeftimamus, ad Magni fui AntecefTbris exemplum fe feliciter ubique componentem, five cum eo in fcriptis Leges Angliae eleganter collaudit, five Monarchiam juftis limitibus conclufam Abfolutae praeponat, five iis artibus qua optimum quemque ornant Judicem, audiendi lenitate, explicandi fcientia, aequalitate decernendi mirifice excellat ; Virum quern pari cum fit induftria, pari exercitatione, pari ingenio uberiori fortafle Do£trina locupletato, pari erga Patriam amore, erga Principem fide parem etiam Honoris gradum confecuturum non dubitamus ; Virum denique cui non fatis efle videtur, relidtam a Majoribus gloriam, et Domefticam laudem tueri, nifi et hoc proprium fuae Familiae Decus aftruat, ut dum Amplitudini, et Privilegiorum Incolumnitati fuae Curiae prudenter confulit, idem pro fingulari fua moderatione et Abftinentia, Jura concefla Noftrae Nobis non invideat. Family of Cajllehill. *47 Idcirco in Solenni Convocatione Dodtorum, Magiftrorum Regentium, et non Regentium quarto die Menfis Maii Anno Domini Millefimo Septintengefimo tricefimo tertio habita, confpirantibus omnium fuffragiis, Eundem Honorabilem et Egregium Virum Johannem I ortefcue Militem Do&orem in Jure Civili creavimus et conftituimus ; Eumque virtute praefentis Diplomatis Singulis Juribus, Privilegiis et Honoribus Gradui ifti qua qua pertinentibus Honoris Caufa, frui et gaudere juflimus. In cujus rei teftimonium Sigillum Univerfitatis Oxon', commune quo hac in parte utimur, prae- fentibus apponi fecimus. Dat' in Domo Noftrae Convocationis Anno Dn' die et Menfe praedict.' «48 Family of Buckland-Filleigh. Chap. X. The Forte/cues of Buckland-Filleigh. AVING in the foregoing pages traced the pofterity of the Chancellor through his eldeft grandfon, John Fortefcue, we fhall now go back to his younger grandfon, William, fecond fon of Martin, to follow the fortunes of that branch, which, although extindt in the male line as to its main ftera, is continued, certainly by the junior branch of which the writer of thefe memoirs is the reprefentative, and probably by others which have efcaped his fearch. Their Devonfhire eftates have, however, all pafled away by fale fince the beginning of the prefent century. William Fortefcue, fecond fon of Martin Fortefcue and Elizabeth Denzill, inherited, at his mother's death, the manor and manfion of Buckland-Filleigh. 1 He married Maud, daughter and heir of John Atkyns, Efquire, of Milton-Abbot, in Devonfhire, and by her had iffue three fons, John, Edmund, and James, and one daughter, Jacquetta, who married William Dennis, of Southcombe, Efquire. John, the eldeft: fon, fucceeded to the eftates on his father's death. He married Chriftian, daughter of John Arfcott, of Hollefworth, Efquire, and had iffue, ift, William, 2nd, John; and a daughter, Alice, married to William Farry, Efquire. William, the eldeft fon, fucceeded his father. He married, in 1555, Anne, daughter of Sir Roger Giffard, of Brightley, near South Molton, in the parifh of Chittlehampton, the feat of a younger branch of the ancient family of the GifFards of Halfbury. The manfion and chapel of Brightley are now in ruins, a farm-houfe occupying part of the former ; and the park is broken up. The iffue of their marriage was four fons and eight daughters, of whom prefently. By his will, dated 15th April, 1580, and proved 6th April, 1583, he leaves his manor and lands "within the parifh of St. Peter's, Marland," to his three younger fons, Faithful (afterwards Sir Faithful), Martyn, and Bartholomew ; bequeathing Buckland-Filleigh to his eldeft fon, John, and his heirs. He died in 1580. The fecond fon of this William Fortefcue and Anne Giffard was Sir Faithful Fortefcue, born about the year 1 5 1 2, " diftinguifhed for his eminent abilities," fays the Biographia Britannica. 2 He ferved in the army in Flanders for feveral years, and, when the Spanifh invafion was threatened, received, in the year 1588, a commiffion from Queen Elizabeth to raife men and arms for the camp at Tilbury, and he was knighted by the queen. He wrote the memoirs of his family, which he left behind him ; and his grandfon continued them to 1 Lyfons's Correfpondence, MS. letter from Mr. Inglett Fortefcue. 2 iii. p. 1999. Family of Buckland-Filleigh. 149 the year 17 18. No trace of thefe records, however, can now be found. He lived to be upwards of ninety-fix years old, dying about the year 1608. One of his daughters, of whom he had feveral, lived to be 102. Sir Faithful's fons were three — John, the eldeft, who was ofNortham, in Devon, and died about 1662, leaving iflue ; Faithful, the fecond ; and Arthur, the third. Of thefe, Faithful 1 entered the army, and, like his father, diftinguifhed himfelf while ferving in Flanders. After his return from abroad, he went into Ireland on a vifit to his coufin, Sir Faithful Fortefcue, the governor of Carrickfergus ; and it is mentioned, as a proof of his military knowledge, that being prefent at a muttering of the army, both horfe and foot, on the Curragh of Kildare by the Duke (at that time Marquis) of Ormonde, he was allowed at the requeft of his coufin, to draw up and form the whole army in order of BUCKLAND-KILLKId II ( III HI II. battle, which he performed fo well that the duke gave him a captain's commifiion in the field. He afterwards became a lieutenant-colonel, and was prefent on the Royal fide at feveral of the battles in the great Civil War. After the Reftoration he was reinstated by Charles II. in the poft which he had held under the king his father, and died aged eighty-two. Colonel Faithful Fortefcue left a fon of his own name, who held a commifiion in a foot company, under Sir Thomas Fortefcue of Dromifkin, in the army in Ireland, and died a lieutenant in 1679. This lieutenancy was given by the Duke of Ormonde to a kinfmanof the deceafed lieutenant, William Fortefcue, fecond fon of theaforefaid Sir Thomas. The original commifiion is in the poffefiion of the Lodge, Peerage of Ireland. Family of Buckland-Filleigh. author. Bartholomew, the y'oungeft fon of William Fortefcue of Buckland-Filleigh -by Anne GifFard, is thus mentioned in his nephew's, Sir Faithful, memoir of Lord Chichefter : — " He (Lord Chichefter) went firft into Ireland, taking with him, for companion, Bartho- lomew Fortefcue, my father's younger brother, whom he much loved, and he being, as I have heard his lordfhip fay, very good company, a valiant ftrong man, and one of the beft wreftlers of thofe times. They flayed awhile with Sir George Bourchier, who was then Mafter of the Ordnance in Ireland, and fon of the Earl of Bath, and father of this earl, a noble gentleman. They had been actors, with other young gentlemen, of a youthful rafti trick in England, and when their friends had obtained their pardon of Queen Elizabeth, they returned to England. Soon after my Lord Chichefter, who was then but Mafter Chichefter, adventured abroad for advancement, and Fortefcue turned fea-captain, 1 and died in that employment." We now return to John Fortefcue of Buckland-Filleigh, the eldeft fon of William Fortefcue by Anne GifFard. He married twice ; firft, Anne, daughter of Walter Porter, Efquire, of Thetford in Norfolk, by whom he had one fon, Roger. His fecond wife was Sufannah, daughter to Sir John Chichefter of Raleigh near Barnftaple, and fifter to Sir Arthur Chichefter, afterwards Lord Chichefter of Belfaft, Lord Deputy of Ireland. This lady bore him two fons, John, who died unmarried, and Faithful, afterwards Sir Faithful, of whom hereafter ; and two daughters, Grace and Anne. John Fortefcue died in 1 604, 2 and was fucceeded by his eldeft fon, Roger, who married Mary, daughter of Richard Norleigh of Inwardleigh, and died in 16 29/ leaving four fons and five daughters, whofe names are given in the Pedigree. Of thefe the eldeft fon was John, of Buckland-Filleigh, entered at the Inner Temple, May 3, 16 19, though never called to the bar, 4 who married Thomazin, daughter of Humphrey Prideaux, eldeft fon of Sir Nicholas Prideaux of Solden, by whom he had five fons, 5 William, James, Roger, Hum- phrey, and John. John Fortefcue died June 7, 1665, aged fifty-nine. His monument is in Buckland-Filleigh Church, with rather pretentious infcriptions in Englifh and Latin. One of the latter runs thus : — - " Praeclariofe Fortefcutorum Tribu En hie fepultus Armiger Nunc dormit, at tuba cum fonabit ultima Exurget iterum ad gloriam." His fecond fon, James, born in 1 625," was fettled at Ford in the parifh of Mil ton- Abbot; 1 That is to fay, captain of a queen's fhip. 2 Stemmata Fortefcuana, and his Will, proved May 5, 1 604. 3 See John Fortefcue's Will in tern. Fort. 4 See Inner Temple Records. 8 Stemmata. « Bap> Dec . ,8, 1625. 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He left behind feveral literary productions ; 1 the principal being two volumes of" EfTays Moral and Mifcellaneous," publifhed in London, in 8vo., in 1759, including a poem called ' c Pomery Hill," firft publifhed feparately in 1754; it was " humbly addrefled to his Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales ; " alfo three defcrip- tive poems, two of them on Caftlehill, and one on " Devonia." Doctor Fortefcue was a Fellow of Exeter College; he took his degree of B.A. October 14, 1736, of M.A. June 22, 1739. He was Senior Proctor of the Univerfity in 1748 ; B.D. April 1 1, 1749; and D.D. January 20, 1749-50. He died unmarried in 1777, and his library was fold in 1779. I am indebted to the writer in u Notes and Queries," at the place referred to in the foot note, for mod of this information. His works, which, to judge from contemporary opinions, have no great value, are feldom met with in libraries. We return to William, the eldeft. fon of John Fortefcue by Thomazin Prideaux. He was born in 1622, and fucceeded to his father's eftate ; he married Emlyn, daughter of Trofle, Efquire, and had iflue three fons, Henry, Roger, and George. At his death, in 1679, he was fucceeded by the eldeft fon, Henry, born in 1659, married to Agnes, daughter of Nicholas Dennis of Barnftaple, Efquire, and died in 1 69 1 , leaving an only fon William, afterwards Mafter of the Rolls. Henry Fortefcue's monument in Buckland-Filleigh Church defcribes him as one whofe early death was regretted ; its infeription, which follows here, is in better tafte than the greater part of fuch productions. Defidcratifs. Hfn. Fortescue Armig. qui obiit Decern' die nono An . Dom. 1 69 1, >Eta\ fuae 33". Miri indoles juventus prematura Brevioris x-vi prxcones. Hunc non longrcvum fore pravnunciant : Sed annos antevcrtit virtute, Morum gravitate fencx ; Et quorfum in agro efl'et cum maturat feges, Aut in mari navis, qua; portum appulit. Hie maturus coelo, et confecto feliciter curfu rcconditur Diuturnior fieri, vix poterat melior, Sat fibi et gloria, nobis heu ! quantillum vixiti. 1 Watts' Bibliotluca Britannica. Davidfon's Hibliothcca Devonicnlis. Supplement Notts and Queries, April 30, 1804, 3rd ferics, vol. v. Monthly Review, vol. vi. 1752, and vol. xxi. 1759. Family of Buckland-Filleigh. The Right Honourable William Fortescue. William Fortefcue, the only fon of Henry Fortefcue of Buckland-Filleigh, by Agnes Dennis, was born in the family manfion there in 1687, and was baptized on the 26th of June in that year. Three years later his father died, at the early age of thirty-three, leaving his fon an infant of three years old. We know nothing of his boyhood, and do not hear of his place of education, either fchool or college. There is no record of him in either the Oxford or the Cambridge lifts of graduates. His name firft occurs at the beginning of his twenty-third year, as marrying his diftant kinfwoman Mary Fortefcue of Fallapit, who, by the death of her brother Peter 1 in 1707, had become a co-heirefs of her father, Edmund Fortefcue of that place. This lady was two years younger than himfelf, (he having been born in 1789. 2 The marriage took place at the church of Eaft Allington, July 7, 1709, 3 and he lived with his wife at Buckland-Filleigh, where, on the 16th of July in the next year (17 10), their firft and only child, a daughter, was born; the young mother fur- viving its birth not many days. She was buried on the 4th of Auguft at Eaft Allington, 4 the parifh in which Fallapit is fituated, where her death on the firft of that month is recorded on a mural tablet erected to the memories of her father and mother, and fix of their children, which I obferved in the church there — a church abounding in Fortefcue memorials — on the 17th of June, 1879. Soon after this event William Fortefcue fettled in London, having determined to follow a learned profeflion. This decifion, and the fteadinefs with which he adhered to it, muft be taken as proofs of an energetic mind anxious to excel ; for he had inherited a fair eftate, on which his forefathers had contentedly lived for many generations as country fquires, and his marriage and the birth of his child held out the profpec"l of a further acceflion of property hereafter. In September of this year he entered the Middle Temple, 5 where he kept his terms for four years; changing to the Inner Temple in November, 17 14, whence he was called to the bar in July, 171 5.° How much of his time he devoted to his law ftudies we cannot fay, but he foon began to mix with the wits and clever men and women who adorned the firft half of the laft century. In 17 14 7 he was already on familiar terms of friendfhip with Pope, his contem- porary, he being only a year older than the poet. This intimacy and correfpondence lafted until the death of the latter in 1744, and has caufed William Fortefcue's name to be 1 Stem. Fort. 2 Stem. Fort. 3 Stem. Fort., E. Allington Monuments, p. 50. 4 Eaft Allington Regiftry and Monuments in Stem. Fort. 5 Buckland-Filleigh Regiftry ; Stem. Fort. ; and Records of Inner Temple. 6 Fofs, Lives of Judges, vol. viii. 7 Pope to Gay, 1714. Works, x. 32-33. Right Hon. William Forte/cue. iro ftill remembered. The firft dated letter from Pope which has been preferved bears the date of 1720; but we find him afterwards afking his friend "to fend what letters you have been fo partial to me as to keep efpecially of an early date, before the year 1720," 1 adding "I may derive great fervice from feeing them in the chronological order ; and I find my collec- tion, fuch as it is, muft be haftened, or will not be effectual." As fome details of Fortefcue's life are to be gathered from Pope's letters to him, feveral of them are here given : — Letters from Alexander Pope to the Right Hon. William Forte/cue, M.P. Sept. 17. 2 The gaiety of your letter proves you are not fo ftudious of wealth as many of your profeflion are, fince you can derive matter of mirth from want of bufinefs. You are none of thofe lawyers who deferve the motto of the devil, "Circuit quaerens quern devoret." But your circuit will at leaft procure you one of the greateft of temporal bleflings, health. What an advantageous circumftance is it, for one that loves rambling fo well, to be a grave and reputable rambler ; while (like your fellow-circuiteer, the fun) you travel the round of the earth, and behold all the iniquities under the heavens? You are much a fuperior genius to me in rambling; you, like a pigeon (to which I would fooner compare a lawyer than to a hawk) can fly fome hundred leagues at a pitch ; I, like a poor fquirrel, am continually in motion, indeed, but it is about a cage of three foot ; my little excurfions are but like thofe of a fhop- keeper, who walks every day a mile or two before his own door, but minds his bufinefs. Your letter of the caufe lately before you, I could not but communicate to fome ladies of your acquaintance. I am of opinion, if you continued a correfpondence of the fame fort during a whole circuit, it could not fail to pleafe the fex better than half the novels they read. There would be in them what thev love above all things, a moft happy union of truth and fcandal. I allure you the Bath affords nothing equal to it. It is, on the contrary, full of grave and fad men : Mr. Baron S., Lord Chief- Jufticc A., Judge P., and Counfellor B., who has a large pimple on the tip of his nofe, but thinks it inconliitent with his gravity to wear a patch, notwithflranding the precedent of an eminent judge. I am, dear Sir, yours, &c. Sept. 10, 1724. Dear Sir, I heartily thank you for yours ; and the rather, becaufe you arc fo kind as to employ me, though but in little matters ; I take it as an earncft you would do fo in greater. As to the houfe of preparation for the fmall-pox, why fhould it not be my own ? It is entirely at your fervice ; and I fancy two beds, or three upon neccflity, (beiides, your fervants may be difpofed ot in the next houfe to me), will amply furnifh your family. It is true the fmall-pox has been in Twitnam, but is pretty well gone oft*. I cannot rind any village Pope to W. V., Letter 47, Auguft 2, I 735. This is an early letter, probably written when Pope was at Bath, in 1714 X I 54 Family of Buckland-Filleigh. more free from it fo near London, except that of Peterfham, where I hear it has not been ; but I will further inform myfelf upon your next notice. As to the receipt of Sir Stephen Fox's eyewater, which I have found benefit from, it is very fimple, and only this : take a pint of camphorated fpirit of wine, and infufe therein two fcruples of elder flowers. Let them remain in it, and wafti your temples and the nape of your neck, but do not put it into your eyes, for it will fmart abominably. When you have taken breath for a week or two, and had full poffeffion of that bleffed indolence which you fo juftly value, after your long labours and peregrinations, I hope to fee you here again ; firft exercifing the paternal care, and exemplary in the tender offices of a paterfamilias, and then confpicuous in the active fcenes of bufinefs, eloquent at the bar, and wife in the chamber of council, the future honour of your native Devon ; and to fill as great a part in the hiftory of that county for your fagacity and gravity in the laws, as Efquire Bickford is likely to do for his many experiments in natural philofophy. I am forced to defpatch this by the poft, which is going, or elfe I could not have forborne to expa- tiate upon what I laft mentioned. I muft now only give Mr. Bickford my fervices, and join them to thofe I fhall ever offer to your own family. Believe me, dear Sir, Your faithfulleft, affectionate fervant. Gay was well five days ago at Chifwick. Twitnam, Sept. 17, 1724. Dear Sir, Your friendly and kind letter I received with real joy and gladnefs, to hear, after a long filence, of the welfare of a whole family which I fhall ever unfeignedly wifh well to in all regards. I knew not in what part of the land to level a letter at you, or elfe you had heard firft from me. My mother, indeed, is very ill; but as it feems only the effecT: of a cold, which always handles her feverely, I hope not in any danger. I am in the old way, — this day well, however, and the paft and future are not in my power, fo not much in my care. Gay is at Bath, with Dr. Arbuthnot. Mrs. Howard returns your fervices; and Marblehill waits only for its roof — the reft finiftied. The little Prince William wants Mifs Fortefcue, or, to fay truth, anybody elfe that will play with him. You fay nothing at what time we may expect you here. I wifh it foon, and thought you talked of Michael- mas. I am grieved to tell you that there is one Devonfliire man not honeft ; for my man Robert proves a vile fellow, and I have difcarded him. " Auri facra fames " is his crime — a crime common to the greateft and meaneft, if any way in power, or too much in truft. I am going upon a ftiort ramble to my Lord Oxford's, and Lord Cobham's, for a fortnight, this Michaelmas ; and the hurry I am at prefent in, with preparing to be idle (a common cafe), makes it difficult for me to continue this letter, though I truly defire to fay many things to you. Homer is advanced to the eighth book ; I mean printed fo far. My gardens improve more than my writings ; my head is ftill mere upon Mrs. H d . and her works than upon my own. Adieu ! God blefs you ; an ancient and Chriftian, therefore an unmodifti and unufual falutation. I am ever, fincerely and affectionately, yours. Right Hon. William Fortefcue. Twitnam, Sept. 6. Dear Sir, I cannot exprefs the joy your letter gives me. I was in great fears after I had written, learning no further of your ftate, when I fent three days to Mr. Thory. Your giving me thefe lines under your hand is a kindnefs I fhall long remember. I hope in God your recovery increafes as faft as I really wifh it ; one of my great apprehenfions was, you might not have a fkilful phyfician in a diftant country place, of which you have eafed me; I hope you keep him near or with you. I defire earneftly to hear of you foon again, though I hope the danger of a relapfe is over ; but furely you muft not hazard cold by too quick a removal. Without pretences I have been fo long and fo fincerely your friend, that this alarm was a lively and deep-felt one to me. God forbid it fhould ever be renewed! I may now have fpirits enough to quote Homer to you, who fays, " A friend is better than a kinfman." Your fifter, I hope is well ; and as (he ought to receive no harm from fo virtuous an enterprize, fo I truft fhe will have her reward complete in feeing you perfectly reftored. I am ever, dear Sir, Your truly affectionate and faithful friend. Is there anything at this diftance that I can procure for you, or any corroborative advice that I can get for you from any of our phyficians, or any bufinefs I could eafe you the care of, or anything you would have faid or done ? Down Hall, in Eflex, Jan. 5. Dear Sir, I had writ the pofl after my receipt of yours, but it followed me thirty miles beyond London, where I fpent part of the Chriftmas. I yet hope this will find you, and I wifh that the very next day you may begin your journey, becaufe fincerely I cannot fee you too foon. I am rejoiced that your gout left you the day after I did ; may it never return ! though it bring manv compliments along with it: for, let my friends wifh me as long a life as they pleafc, I fhould not wifh it to myfelf with the allay of great or much pain. My Lord Dorfet faid very well in that cafe, the tenure is not worth the fine. I hope the joys of a marriage, both to thofe who pofiefs, and to you who procure (modeftly fpeaking), will obliterate all thofe melancholy thoughts. I wifh the new couple all felicity. And pray make hafte to town with the remainder of your family, and put them into the like happy condition with all fpeed. Aup. 24, 1730. Dear Sir, 1 had no fooner received your kind letter, with the ill news of your being feized with the gout at Buckland, but your clerk acquainted me that you were extremely ill, which gives me unexpreflible concern. My fears of your being diltant from your family, and what help by phyfician may be to be procured in a lone country, do fincerely much trouble me. I beg to know by the firft opportunity, by a line either from yourfelf or any other hand, how you are ; and that you are not in fo much danger as I apprehended. I will add no more words, fince none can tell you how much I am in i 5 6 Family of Buckland-Filleigh. pain about you, and fince they can only be troublefome to yourfelf, if you are very ill. But God and my own heart know with what warm affection, and wilhes for your recovery, and for your every happinefs and comfort, I am ever, dear Sir, Yours. Monday, April. Dear Sir, I was two nights in town, and aimed at feeing you on both ; but the curfed attendance on the excife bill deprived me of it, and I grumble with the reft, upon that fcore, at it. Your prefent life is labour ; I hope your future will be in more repofe, and that you may fleep either on the bench or oft", juft as you pleafe. Twickenham will be as much at the fervice of my lord judge as it was of my learned counfel ; and I flatter myfelf in the imagination that your hours and days in general will be more mine when they are more yours. Adieu ! and keep my fecret as long as it will keep. I think myfelf fo happy in being approved by you, and fome few others, that I care not for the public a jot. September 13. Dear Sir, I am truly glad you have fafely performed your revolution, and are now turning round your own axle in Devonfhire ; from whence may we foon behold you roll towards our world again ! I can give you no account of Gay fince he was raffled for and won back by his Duchefs, but that he has been in her vortex ever fince. But I think I fhould not in friendfhip conceal from you a fear or a kind- hearted jealoufy he feems to have entertained from your never having called upon him in town, or correfponded with him fince. This he communicated to me in a late letter, not without the appear- ance of extreme concern on his part, and all the tendernefs imaginable on yours. London, March 22, 1734-35. Dear Sir, I have feen your family twice ; once at Mr. Jervas's, and laft night at home. They are all well, except a little cold which Mifs Fortefcue has, but was very merry. I hope you have this week feen Buckland with pleafure, and in a ftate of improvement ; and that you will fee Fallapit with the fame. Twitnam is very cold thefe eafterly winds ; but I prefume they do not blow in the happy regions of Devonfhire. My garden, however, is in good condition, and promifes fruits not too early. I am building a ftone obeliflc, making two new ovens and ftoves, and a hot-houfe for ananas, of which I hope you will tafte this year. The public news and votes tell you all the bufinefs of the feafon. It is generally thought the Parliament will be up in the middle of April. Adieu ! May fuccefs, health, and money attend you in all your circulations. I am, faithfully and affectionately, dear Sir, Yours. Augujl 23, 1735. Dear Sir, I am fummoned unexpectedly to Southampton, to take leave (I fear my laft) of Lord Peter- borough ; from whence I return in a week, he going for France at the month's end. But I firft take ytrtZrzcJ-^ Uclt , f ^^C^u^rcT . ^uJ^ f W jf/^ U^ll ^<4L> f /lO * / Autograph Letter from Alexander Pope Lo the Fight Hon bl " William Fortescue of Buckknd Filleigh Right Hon. William Fori ef cue. '57 care of your houfe ; the window is done, and the other bricked up ; as to the back window, I think it will do as it is ; the painters have done, and next week the upholfterer fets up the beds. I have not had one quiet day to poffefs my foul there in peace. I fhall die of hofpitality, which is a fate becoming none but a patriarch, or a Parliament man in the country. Thofe who think I live in a ftudy, and make poetry my bufinefs, are more miftaken than if they took me for a Prince of Topinambou. I love my particular friends as much as if I knew no others, and I receive almoft everybody that comes near me as a friend : this is too much ; it diflipates me when I fhould be collected ; for though I may be of fome (not much) value to a few, yet, divided among fo many, I muft be good for nothing. Life becomes a mere paftime. When fhall you and I fit by a firefide without a brief or a poem in our hands, and yet not idle, not thoughtlefs, but as ferious, and more fo, than any bufinefs ought to make us, except the great bufinefs — that of enjoying a reafonable being, and regarding its end ? The fooner this is the cafe the better. God deliver you from law, me from rhyme, and give us leifure to attend to what is more important. Believe me, dear Sir, with all affection, but in great hurry, for my foot is in the coach the moment my hand is off this paper. [May all happincfs wait on Buck- land and Fallapit.] Entirely yours. September 3, 1737. Dear Sir, It is long that I have not writ to you ; but want of materials is a good rcafon for not writing at any time ; and that which I never want, friendfhip and aft'edtion, have not much to fay, though they feel much. The knowledge you will not fail, from long experience, to have of mine for you, though it has had few means to prove itfelf, and the opinion which, I Hatter myfelf, you have of my being no ungrateful man to thofe who have proved theirs to me, will fufficiently convince you I am always thinking of and wifhing well to you. I have this fummcr contrived to make a circuit, almoft as long as yours, though lefs ufeful, from which I am not yet returned. I have been now a full month on the ramble, firft to Southampton and Portfmouth, but the ltormy weather prevented my defign on the Iflc of Wight ; thence to Oxford, Cirencelter, and Bath. It will be near Michael- mas before I fhall fee Richmond or Mrs. Blount, who went thither (as I hear by the laft poft) but two days ago, to enjoy the palace you left her, being much rejoiced to be at repofe after a ramble fhe has alfo made. I hope Mrs. Spooner is now in perfect health, though fhe had been ailing when I laft faw her before her journey. I hope you are all together by this time, or will about the time this letter reaches you, which comes to congratulate you on the Sabbath of your labours, and to exhort vou to concert this Michaelmas fome improvements of your wood, Sec. at Buckland, fadtura nepotibus umbras. But cut out fome walks for yourfelf while you yet have legs, and make fome plain and fmooth under your trees, to admit a chaife or chariot when you have none. I find myfelf already almoft in the condition, though not the circumftances, of an aged judge, and am forced to be carried in that manner over Lord Bathurft's plantations. Do not be difcouraged from giving me, once more at leaft, an account of yourfelf. If directed to Twitcnham, it will rind its way to me. Be aflured I am, with old fincerity, and ever fhall be, dear Sir, Your moft aftedtionate and obliged friend and fervant. Family of Buckland-Filleigh. Dear Sir, I am forced to write to you upon this red-lined paper, for I have not a ftieet in the houfe befide. I fent Bowry to aflc you when I might hope to fee you. I really want it, for I am very near funk in melancholy, having been full fix weeks here, attending a very melancholy cure. I would otherwife have tried to fix a day to meet you at Sir R. W.'s (with his permiflion, and your coadjutor - fhip). I have a particular reafon to defire to know a thing, which I believe he will tell me if you aflc it, Who was author of a book called, " An Eflay on the Tafte and Writings of this Age," dedicated to him, as a libel upon me. I formerly fent it to Sir R. by you (as I think). Pray aflc him, and aflure him of my refpectful fervices. Pray fend me fome paper ; it is all I can get by you men in place. I am ever, dear Sir, yours. July 31, 1738. Dear Sir, It was my intention fooner to have told you of what, I know, is the news a friend chiefly defires, my own ftate of health. But I waited thefe three weeks almoft, to give you a better account than I can yet do ; for I have fuffered a good deal from many little ailments, that do not altogether amount to a great difeafe, and yet render life itfelf a fort of one. I have never been in London but one day fince I parted from you, when I faw Mrs. Spooner and the reft of yours ; and this day I took it into my head they might be at the Vineyard. I went thither, but Mrs. Shepherd told me, in a voice truly lugubrious, that nobody had feen her walls fince you were laft there. I comforted her over a difli of tea, and recommended her to read Milton on all fuch occafions of worldly difappointments. I fhould be glad to hear of any place or thing that pleafes you in your progrefs. Lord Burlington was very active in ifluing orders to his gardener to attend you with pine-apples : he goes into Yorkfhire next week. Pray remember me to Mr. Murray. You need not tell him I admire and efteem him, but pray aflure him that I love him. I am, fincerely, dear Sir, yours. Auguft 17, 1739. Dear Sir, I was truly concerned at my return from my rambles to hear from Mrs. Blount how ill you had been ; worfe than you had really told me in your kind letter. I called at your houfe a day or two, but mifled the ladies ; but the fervants told me they had heard twice from you, and that you was much better. I hope it proved fo ; and that as your journey advanced, your ftrength did the fame. I wiftied to hear more of you; and now defire it that I may no longer want the knowledge how you find yourfelf. I dined yefterday with Jervas upon a venifon pafty, when we drank your health warmly, but as temperately as to liquor as you could yourfelf; for neither he nor I am well enough to drink wine. Right Hon. William Fortefcue. *59 Saturday Night, June, 1743. Dear Sir, I have twice had the ill-fortune to mifs you when I went to the Rolls ; the laft time Mr. Solicitor and I were together ; and now that he and I are at Twitenham (for one day only), my Lord Bolingbrolce happens to be fo, which hinders us from feeing you. I fhall be in town again in two or three days, and hope then to dine and fup with you. I am really troubled to meet you fo rarely, as I preferve the memory of fo many hours and days formerly parted together ; and am, with that fort of truth which was to be found in old-fafhioned friendfhips, dear Sir, Your faithful and ever mod affectionate fervant, A. Pope. From John Gay to Right Hon. William Fortefcue. Sept. 23, 1725. Dear Sir, I am again returned to Twickenham upon the news of the perfon's death you wrote to me about. I cannot fay I have any great profpecl of fuccefs ; but the affair remains yet undetermined, and I cannot tell who will be his fucceffor. I know I have fincerely your good wifhes upon all occafions. One would think that my friends ufe me to difappointmcnts, to try how many I could bear ; if they do fo, they are miftaken ; for as I do not expect much, I can never be much difappointed. I am in hopes of feeing you in town the beginning of October, by what you write to Mr. Pope ; and fure your father will think it reafonable that Mifs Fortefcue fhould not forget her French and dancing. Dr. Arbuthnot has been at the point of death, by a fevere fit of illnefs, an impofthumation in the bowels ; it hath broke, and he is now pretty well recovered. I have not feen him fince my return from Wiltfhire, but intend to go to town the latter end of the week. I have made your compliments to Mrs. Howard this morning. She indeed put me in mind of it, by inquiring after you. Pray make my compliments to your filters and Mrs. Fortefcue ; Mr. Pope defires the fame. Yours moft affectionately, J.G. In Pope's imitation of a fatire of 1 Ioracc he fubftitutes Fortefcue for Trcbatius, 1 and thus addrefles him at the beginning : — 11 Tim'rous by nature, of the rich in awe, I come to counfel learned in the law : You'll give me, like a friend both fage and free, Advice, and (as you ufe) without a fee." And in one of his letters at the time (1732-33) the poet thus writes : — " Have you feen my imitation of Horace ? I fancy it will make you fmile ; but though when firft I began it I thought of you, before I came to end it, I confidered it might be too Horace. Satin s, Hook ii. Satire 1. i6o Family of Buckland-Filleigh. ludicrous, to a man of your fituation and grave acquaintance, to make you Trebatius, who was yet one of the mod confiderable lawyers of his time, and a particular friend of a poet. In both which circumftances I rejoice that you refemble him, but am chiefly pleafed that you do it in the latter." William Fortefcue was the perfon addrefled by the poet Gay in his " Trivia " in the following lines : — " Come Fortefcue, fincere, experienced friend, Thy briefs, thy deeds, and e'en thy fees fufpend, Come, let us leave the Temple's filent walls, Me bufinefs to my diftant lodging calls ; Through the long Strand together let us ftray, With thee converling I forget the way." His name occurs in many memoirs of the time ; and it is evident that he lived in the moft intelle&ual fociety of the day, with Pope, Swift, Gay, Lady Suffolk, Lady Mary W. Montague, Atterbury Bifhop of Rochefter, Lord Oxford, Arbuthnot, Congreve, &c. He was alfo in conflant intercourfe with Sir Robert Walpole ; and that minifter, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, to which office he was firft appointed in 17 15, made him his Private Secretary, 1 a connection to which he may have owed his advancement in his profef- fion. He appears during this period to have regularly gone circuit ; but Pope's letters do not contain many allufions to his practice at Weftminfter, which probably was never very large. At the general election which took place after the death of George I., in 1727, he was returned to Parliament as member for the borough of Newport, Ifle of Wight, for which place he continued to fit until his elevation to the Bench. In 1730 he was made a King's Counfel, and the fame year was appointed Attorney- General to the Prince of Wales, father to George III. His vacations were fpent in Devonfhire at Buckland-Filleigh, and he occafionally vifited Fallapit. The former feat is placed in a hilly diftrict on the northern outfkirts of Dartmoor, and commands a view of its higheft points. The extenfive woods of the property were improved by the Mafter of the Rolls in accordance with Pope's fuggeftion, but not with the refult contemplated faftura nepotibus umbras, for no defendants lived to enjoy their fhades. Several miles of drive were carried through them, and thefe, with the park of three hundred acres furrounding the houfe, a ftrudture enlarged and modernized fince William Fortefcue's time, formed, when I laft vifited Buckland on the 13th of June, 1879, a very pleafing dwelling place. Fofs, Lives of the Judges. Right Hon. William Forte/cue. 161 We do not find that he fpoke in Parliament, but he fupported by his votes Sir Robert Walpole's administration ; and thus, as well as by his focial qualities, having been previoufly made a ferjeant-at-law, 1 he fucceeded in obtaining a feat on the Bench, for which his refpectable if not profound legal knowledge may be held to have qualified him, for he ranked, as we are told, as a " good lawyer." A vacancy occurring by the removal from the Exche- quer to the Common Pleas of Sir John Comyns, he was made a Baron of the former Court on the 9th of February, in this year. Here he remained fcarcely two years and a-half, fol- lowing for the fecond time Sir John Comyns when this judge was raifed to be Chief Baron on the 7th of July, 1738. After three years more Fortefcue exchanged his feat on the Bench for the more agreeable and lefs laborious pofl of Mafter of the Rolls, to which he was appointed on the 5th of November, 1 741 , and, at the fame time, he was fworn as a Privy Councillor. He remained at the Rolls until his death on December 1 6th, 1749, in his fixty-third year. He feems to have avoided the knighthood frequently conferred upon Judges, and almoft as a matter of courfe upon Matters of the Rolls. The following curious circumftance has been kindly communicated to me by Mr. Alfred Horwood, of the Middle Temple. Writing on the 19th of June, 1869, he fays : "A lady of a Devonshire family lately called on me, and faw your volumes. She faid that her aunt, ftill living, and about eighty-fix or eighty-feven, had told her that her mother was with Fortefcue, the Mafter of the Rolls, juft before his death, in 1749, when a white bird flew in at the window. * Ah,' faid the judge, 1 have you come for me? ' A tradition in the family fays that a white bird appears prior to the death of a member. As a fpeclator told the event to a perfon now living, I thought you might like to know it." It is to be regretted that fo few memorials of him remain. I le kept a diary, which mull have contained much that would now be interefting beyond the fmall circle of perfons of his name or family. This, as I am informed by Mr. Fortefcue Brickdale, remained at Buck- land-Filleigh until after the death of Mrs. Spooner, William Fortcfcue's only child, when it is fuppofed to have fallen into the hands of her huftiand's relations, and has not fince been recovered, notwithstanding many attempts which have been made to trace it. His library and papers were finally fcattered at the fale of Buckland-Fillcigh by Colonel Inglett Fortefcue. Some rough notes made on the fly-leaves of a Gazetteer in ten volumes called u Magna Britannia," which he carried about on his circuits, are all that has been recovered. Through Mr. Brickdale's kindnefs I am able to give a few of them. Thefe, with a letter to Lady Suffolk, and four notes of no importance, are now printed, as the only fpeci- mens which we have of his writings. The latter owe their prefervation to their blank fides 1 Sec Foft. Y 1 62 Family of Buckland-Filleigh. having been ufed by Pope for the rough copies of his Homer, and are in the Britim Mufeum. 1 I ought, however, to add his contribution to " Martinus Scriblerus." The burlefque re- port of the cafe of " Stradling verfus Styles ; or the Pyed Horfes," a witty and lively little piece ftill much in favour with lawyers. It will be found further on. He was chofen to be the "legal advifer" of the ''Scriblerus Club," 2 and befides the above, contributed feveral legal corrections and hints to its other papers. Jervas writes of him as " ridente Fortefcuvio," 3 and Bowles 4 tells us that he was a man of great humour, as well as of great talents and integrity. Fortefcue, dying while in office, was buried in the Rolls Chapel; his grave is immediately in front of the communion table there, and on the wall near the place is the following infcription : — In this Chappel lyeth buryed The Right Honourable William Fortescue Of Buckland-Filleigh and Fallapit in the County of Devon Efquire Who having been one of the Barons of the Court Of Exchequer and afterwards one of the Juftices Of the Court of Common Pleas, was made Mafter of the Rolls the 5th day of November 1741, And dyed the 16 th day of December 1749 In the 63 rd year of his age. He never married again after the early death of his wife. His mother and his unmarried fifters-in-law, Grace and Elizabeth, lived much with him, and aflifted in the care of his only child. Grace died in March, 1743. 5 A letter of the period fays, " The Mafter of the Rolls has loft his fifter Grace. She was an exceedingly good woman, and he is very much afflicted." Horace Walpole, in 1743, thus refers to the houfehold : 6 — "I am juft come tired from a family dinner at the Mafter of the Rolls, but I will write to you, though my head aches with maiden fifters' healths, forms, and Devonlhire, and Norfolk." And he adds as a note, perhaps to account for the Norfolk element, and his admiftion to a family party: — "William Fortefcue, a relation of Margaret, Lady Walpole;" in which I imagine he is in error. Lady Walpole, it is true, was a coufin of Hugh Fortefcue, Lord Clinton, but I cannot find that fhe was related to the Mafter of the Rolls. 1 I am indebted to Mr. Moy Thomas of Oakley Cottage, Upper Cheyne Road, Chelfea, for calling my attention to thefe papers. Cotton MS. Plut. 4809, &c. 2 Letters of Countefs of Suffolk, vol. i. p. 202. 3 Bowles's Pope, x. 226. 4 Ibid. vi. 299. 5 Letter from Right Hon. Sir J. Willis, in Nichol's Literary Illuftrations, vol. iv. 394. 6 Walpole's Letter to Sir H. Mann, May 19, 1743, Cunningham's Edition, vol. i. 247. Right Hon. Willia7n Fortefcue. 163 His other fifter-in-law, Elizabeth, furvived until 1768, having fucceeded to the Fallapit property upon the death, in 1752, 1 without furviving iflue, of her niece, Mary Fortefcue, only child of the Matter of the Rolls, who had inherited Fallapit from her mother, and Buckland-Filleigh from her father, and married, in 1733 or 1734, John Spooner, Efq., by whom me had an only child, Mary, who died an infant ; Buckland-Filleigh pafling to a coufin, John Fortefcue of Bampton (fon of George Fortefcue of Taviftock, uncle to William Fortefcue), who was the laft Fortefcue pofleffor of the eftates. William Fortefcue to Mrs. Howard.- Inner Temple, July ijl, 1726. Madam, With this you will receive the Hiftory of the Sevarambi, 3 which I promifed your ladyfhip. It is a constitution of government quite different from any that hath yet appeared in the world, and I think much the beft. By that only inftance of making money of no ufe either to the neceflities or pleafure of life, what a train of evils are at once pre- vented? And how happy, of courfe, mud a people be, when doing good and loving their country are the only means of efteem and preferment ! I am, I believe, the only perfon who thinks it real; and were it not for fome few things, and fome few friends whom I do not care to leave, I fhould certainly be for taking a voyage thither. Nay, I am fo far gone in extravagance that, as this wife people have always perfons refiding in every country, I hardly fee a tall man in an American drefs but I take him to be one of them, and can fcarce forbear afking him a hundred queftions about Sporoundi and Sevarinde. I make no doubt but you will laugh heartily at me; and mall be very happy if either the book or my folly give you any diverfion. I hope to be able to do myfelf the honour of waiting on your ladyfhip fome time next week : be pleafed, Madam, in the meantime to accept of my humble thanks for your great goodnefs to me when I was laft at Richmond, and give me leave to afture you that I ever am, with all pofllble gratitude and truth, your lady/hip's, &c. &c. W. Fortescue.* William Fortefcue to John Gay. Dear Gay, 3 Not having heard anything of you to-day I fuppofe this may find you at Chifwick ; pray give my humble fervice to Mrs. Pope, Mr. Alexander Pope the elder, 1 Burke's Commoners, article Fortefcue of Fallapit. 2 Afterwards Countefs of Suffolk. 1 A French Utopia, the fcene of which w as laid in South America. 4 From Letters to and from Henrietta, Countefs of Suffolk, 2 vols. 8vo., London, 1824, vol. i. p. 202. 6 Pope's Iliad Autographs, vol. i. 4807. Plut. cxiv. B. Brit. Mus. 164 Family of Buckland-Filleigh. Mr. Alexander Pope ye younger, . . . and I'm juft going to forget the chief end of my letter, which is yt Mr. -et has (as he fays) got a very eafy-going little horfe which you may have ... 5 guineas; he rid him . . himfelf, and fays he knows no fault in him : fo if you don't fucceed with my L d . Burlington, (you) may at leaft with him. My head aches. I am, your moft affec 1 ., W. F. William Fortefcue to Alexander Pope. Dear Sir, The account Bowery left at my houfe yefterday of Mrs. Pope's continuing ill, and your being out of order likewife, gives me the greateft uneafinefs in the world. I would have waited on you myfelf but that I fear any company may be troublefome. I have fent John to know how you both doe, and I hope he will bring me a better account than I had yefterday. Pray confider how much all your friends are interefted in your health, and how much their happinefs depends upon it, for all our fakes, therefore, as well as for your own, let me beg you to take all poflible care of it. Same to fame. D r . Sir, I am very much obliged to you for your kind letter, and am glad to hear that Mrs. Pope is fomething better. 1 Confidering how ill fhe is you can't expect her to recover but by degrees, and therefore you ought to hope the beft ; but, above all, let me renew my requeft to you to be careful of your own health. I have fent John for the lead, and hope he will be able (to) procure fome to fend with this. I am, in the greateft hafte, Dear Sir, Yours, W. F. Monday morning. Remember me kindly to Gay. Extracts from Judge (William) Fortescue's Diary while on his Circuits. Lent JJfizes, 1738-9, Oxford. March 8.— I go to church about 10. The Vice-Chancellor waits upon us, and goes with us in ye coach. 1 Mrs. Pope died in January, 1 733. Right Hon. William Forte/cue. 165 One Mr. Perrott, formerly of Balliol College, but now Fellow of Oriel, preached a very impudent fermon, viz., that God often inflicted national punifhments for the wickednefs of ye King and Rulers. That this had been the fate of our nation formerly — for fome of thefe caufes our nation now mourned even unto this day. He alfo faid that one great mifchief a wicked King did his people was appointing ignorant Judges. N.B. — We ware a pair of our gold law gloves to church. Canterbury, July 13, 174 1. 15 Geo. II. July 14. — I got to Canterbury by 10. The Sheriff met me with his coach juft within the gate. I was in my riding-gown and tye wig, and I went directly to the Town Hall where the Mayor and Recorder where in their robes. We opened the Commiflion and then I went to the Sheriff's houfe, which was inconvenient and without the town, and put on my full robes, from whence I came again to court. N.B. — When I firft came to Canterbury I was informed yt one Mr. Bell the Pltf. v Atty. a very pert young man, had ordered a dinner at the King's Head (N.B. — this is the Whig Inn and the Red Lyon the Tory), where it feems I was to dine, and his Counfel, the Jury, and WitnefTes being to dine there too. I was very angry to be treated in yt manner, and fent word I would not dine there, and ordered Deavcs, C. Brackley, and my ferv" to dine by themfelves, pay for what they had, as well as for my horfes, which they did. The Sheriff faid he was very forry the Corporation did not entertain me, for they had made an order only to get me lodgings, but that I mould be welcome at his houfe, and faid he would get me anything I would have. I defired him only to get fome beans and bacon, a joint of mutton or chicken, and a tart — fo I had thefe four dimes. Mr. Underwood dined with me. I told him I thought it the duty of the Magistrates to take care of me as I was at fo much trouble in coming to do ye town Juftice, and therefore whatever expenfe I put him to fhould be allowed in his cravings. He faid he took it as a very great honour I would dine with him, and I was fo pleafed with his kindnefs that I ordered a guinea among the ferv'* ; but I foon repented my generofity, for he gave a bill for my dinner (he having fent for it to the Red Lyon), for which I ordered Deaves to pay. It came to above \l. \os. od. and two or three bottles of wine were left. Upon which I told him and his Under-Sheriff that they need fend no bill of cravings for I thought the Sheriff had been paid for everything as much as he deferved. The Corporation had a treat for themfelves at the Red Lyon. N.B.— Jofeph Green H. Sheriff", a malfter. Jofeph Sawkins Under-Sheriff. 1 66 Family of Buckland-Filleigh. A Specimen of Scriblerus's Reports. *■ Stradling verfus Styles. Le Report del Cafe argue en le commen Banke devant toutes les Juftices de mefme le Banke, en le quart an du raygne de Roy Jacques, entre Matthew Stradling, Plant, et Peter Styles, Def. en un A£tion propter certos Equos coloratos, Anglice Pyed Horfes, poft. per le det Matthew vers le dit Peter. Le recitel. Sir John Swale, of Swale Hall, in Swale Dale, faft by the River Swale, K'. made his del cas. Jaft Will and Teftament : In which among other Bequefts, was this, viz., " Out of the kind Love and Refpe£t that I bear unto my much honoured and good Friend Mr. Matthew Stradling, Gent. I do bequeath unto the faid Matthew Stradling Gent, all my black and white Horfes." The Teftator had fix black Horfes, fix white Horfes, and fix pyed Horfes. Le Point. The Debate was therefore whether or no the faid Matthew Stradling fhould have the faid pyed Horfes by virtue of the faid Bequeft. Pour le PI. Atkins Apprentice pour le PI. Moy femble que lePl. recouvera. And firft of all it feemeth expedient to confider what is the Nature of Horfes, and alfo what is the Nature of Colours ; and fo the argument will confequently divide itfelf in a twofold way, that is to fay the Formal Part, and the Subftantial Part. Horfes are the Subftantial Part, or things bequeathed ; Black and White the Formal or Defcriptive Part. Horfe, in a phyfical fenfe doth import a certain Quadrupede or four-footed animal, which by the apt and regular Difpofition of certain proper and convenient Parts, is adapted, fitted, and conftituted for the Ufe and Need of Man. Yea fo necefiary and conducive was this animal conceived to be to the Behoof of the Commonweal, that fundry and divers A£ls of Parliament have, from time to time, been made in Favour of Horfes. I st Edward VI. Makes the Tranfporting of Horfes out of the Kingdom no less a Penalty than the forfeiture of 40/. 2 nd and 3 rd Edward VI. Takes from Horfeftealers the benefit of their Clergy. And the Statutes of the 27 th and 32 nd of Hen. VIII. condefcend fo far as to take Care of their very Breed. Thefe our wife anceftors prudently forefeeing that they could not better take care of their own Pofterity, then by alfo taking care of that of their Horfes. And of fo great Efteem are Horfes in the Eye of the Common Law, that when a Knight of the Bath committeth any great and enormous Crime, his Punifhment is to have his Spurs chopt off with a Cleaver, being, as Mafter Bra&on well obferveth, unworthy to ride on a Horfe. Littleton, Sec*. 315, faith, If Tenants in Common make a Leafe, referving for Rent a Horfe, they fhall have but one Afiize, becaufe, faith the Book, the Law will not fuffer a Horfe to be fevered ; another argument of what high eftimation the Law maketh a Horfe. But as the great Difference feemeth not to be fo much touching the fubftantial Part, Horfes, let us proceed to the formal or defcriptive Part, viz., What Horfes they are that come within this Bequeft. Colours are commonly of various Kinds, and different Sorts ; of which White and Black are the two Extremes, and confequently comprehend within them all other Colours whatfoever. BE MOKOHRABLIK WIU.U.M JPOHTJRSf.UE. X o w i— t fa Q < U pq . fa O w 13 U CO fa H O fa i H H fa o fa o fa < o c 13 f H K O W ►J P <*- * PS b "a s e ft, ^ . - , m Z o « 3 w S g * . «s a < -t3 S 0) '-5 "P. H W .0.1 w w w 0 - s ^ t- 0) w _§ '-3 W - •» . H T3 O PS — 00 iX> o - - Right Hon. William Fortefcue. 1 67 By a Bequeft therefore of Black and White Horfes grey or pyed Horfes may well pafs ; for when two Extremes, or remoteft Ends, of any thing are devifed, the Law by common Intendment, will intend whatever is contained between them to be devifed too. But the prefent Cafe is ftill ftronger, coming not only within the Intendment, but alfo the very Letter of the Words. By the word Black, all the Horfes that are Black are devifed ; By the word White, are devifed thofe that are White ; and by the fame words, with the conjunction copulative , between them, the Horfes that are Black and White, that is to fay Pyed, are devifed alfo. Whatever is Black and White is Pyed, and whatever is Pyed is Black and White ; ergo, Black and White is Pyed, and vice verfa Pyed is Black and White. If therefore Black and White Horfes are devifed, Pyed Horfes fhall pafs by fuch Devife; but Black and White Horfes are devifed ; ergo, the PI. fhall have the Pyed Horfes. Pour le Defend. Catlyne Serjeant. Moy femble aP contrary, The Plaintiff fhall not have the Pyed Horfes by Intendment; for if by the Devife of Black and White Horfes, not only Black and White Horfes, but Horfes of any Colour between thefe two Extremes, may pafs, then not only Pyed and Grey Horfes, but alfo Red or Bay Horfes, would pafs likewife, which would be abfurd, and againft Reafon. And this is another ftrong argument in Law, " Nihil quod eft contra Rationem eft licitum :" for Reafon is the Life of the Law, nay the Common Law is nothing but Reafon ; which is to be underftood of artificial Perfection and Reafon gotten by long ftudy, and not of Man's natural Reafon ; for " Nemo nafcitur Artifex," and Lesial Reafon " eft lumma Ratio :" and therefore if all the Reafon that is difperfed into fo many different Heads, were united into one, he could not make fuch a Law as the Law of England ; becaufe by many fucceflions of ages it has been fixed and refixed by grave and learned men ; fo that the old Rule may be verified in it, " Neminem oportet efl'e legibus fapien- tiorem." As therefore Pyed Horfes do not come within the Intendment of the Bequeft, fo neither do thev within the letter of the Words. A Pyed Horfe is not a White Horfe, neither is a Pyed a Black Horfe : how then can Pyed Horfes come under the Words of Black and White Horfes? Befides, when Cuftom hath adapted a certainc determinate Name to any one thing in all Devifcs, Feoffments, and Grants, that certain Name fhall be made ufe of, and no uncertain circumlocutory Defcriptions fhall be allowed ; for Certainty is the Father of Right, and the Mother of Juftice. Le refte del argument jeo ne pouvois oyer, car jeo fui difturb en mon place. Le Court fuit longemcnt en doubt' de e'eft Matter ; et apres grand deliberation eu, Judgment fuit donne pour le PI. nifi caufa. Motion in arreft of Judgment, that the pyed Horfes were Mares; and thereupon an Infpeclion was prayed. Et fur ceo le Court advifari vult. George Fortefcue, the third, but fecond furviving Ton of William Fortefcue of Buckland- Filleigh, by Emyln Trofle, married, in 1697, Rebecca, fifth daughter and eventually heirefs of Edmond Fortefcue of Spridleftone, and was father to John Fortefcue, who lived at Bampton, in Oxfordmire, and to Rebecca Fortefcue, who married Caleb Inglett. George 1 68 Family of Buckland-Filleigh. Fortefcue died a.d. 1700, and was buried in Taviftock Church, where there is a tablet to his memory. His fon John inherited the family eftates at the death, in 1752, of Mary, only child of the Matter of the Rolls. He died unmarried in 1776, 1 and thefe eftates went to the fon of his fifter Rebecca Fortefcue, who, through her mother, had alfo fucceeded to Spridleftone. She married, in 1726, Caleb Inglett, of Dawlim, Efq., and died in 1764, leaving, by her hufband, a fon, Richard Inglett, born in 173 1 ; he married, in 1758, Elizabeth, daughter of Lucy Wefton, fon of Stephen, Bifhop of Exeter, and fucceeding to the two properties of Buckland-Filleigh and Spridleftone, took, in 1776, the additional name of Fortefcue. He had one fon and three daughters; the fon, John Inglett Fortefcue, born in 1759, was educated at Oxford, and held a commiffion in the Royal Horfe Guards (blue) ; he was Lieutenant-Colonel of the North Devon Yeomanry Cavalry. This gentleman was obliged, by pecuniary difficulties, to fell the ancient family property a fhort time before his death, which took place at St. Servan in France, on the 24th of November, 1840, in his 82nd year. The eftate had defcended to him by dired inheritance from Simon De Filleigh, a.d. 1154, in the reign of Henry II., through a long line of anceftors : Filleighs, Weares, Denzilles, and Fortefcues. Colonel Inglett Fortefcue married, in 1788, Ann, daughter of Thomas Sanders, of Exeter, and after her death, in 1 8 1 8, a fecond wife, Sarah, daughter and co-heir of James Marwood, Efq., of Sutton in Devonfhire. By his laft wife he had no ifTue. By Mifs Sanders he had an only fon, John Dicker Inglett Fortefcue, born in 1785, and died in i860. He lies buried in the family vault at Buckland-Filleigh. 2 At his death, without ifTue, the re- mainder of his father's property devolved upon the ifTue of his father's three fifters. Thefe were Margaret Wefton, who married Peter Churchill, Efq., of Dawlim in Devon, and left no ifTue; Elizabeth, married to John Davy Foulkes, Efq., of Medland in Devon, who left ifTue ; and Ann, married to John Brickdale, Efq., of Weft Monckton in Somerfetfhire, and of Stoodleigh in Devonfhire, who alfo left ifTue. Her eldeft fon, John Fortefcue Brick- dale, Efq., of Birchamp Houfe, Newland, Gloucefterfhire, a Magiftrate and Deputy Lieutenant for that county, aflumed in 1861 the name and arms of Fortefcue before his own. This gentleman, who, with much courtefy and kindnefs, gave me valuable information about this branch of the family, died in the year 1867. He was fucceeded by his fon, the prefent Mr. Fortefcue-Brickdale. Pedigree in Stemmata, p. 20. 2 See Infcription in Buckland-Filleigh Church. FAMILY OF DROMISK Sir Faithful Fortescue, 3rd fon of John Fo land-Filleigh, by Susannah, dau. of Sir Jof Raleigh, buried May 29, 1666, at Carifbrook Chichester, a Lieut. -^Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Wil- Col. in the Army, M.P. liam Slingsby of Kippax, for Charlemont, died Yorkfhire. She re-mar. the 1642. 1 ft Viscount Purbeck. John, a Capt. in the Army ; killed by the Rebels in Ire- land about 1642; unmar. I Sir Thomas, a Col. in= the Army ; born 1 620 ; fucceeded his father ; died 1710. :lft, SYDNEY,=2nd, ElIZABEt! dau. of Col. of Sir FerdinI KlNGSMILL, fon of Sir Francis Kingsmill of Sidmonton, Hants. Cary, grandfol Lord Hunsdo Elizabeth, died a.d.=Sir Richard Graham 1705, leaving iflue. of Norton Conyers. Thomas of Dro-=pANNE, dau. of, mifkin, mar. 1716 ; died 1725. John Garstin, Efq., of Bra- ganftown. Sydney, mar. to Thomas Bolton, Efq., of Knock, died 1749. Gertrude, mar. to Thomas St. Leger, fon of Sir W. St. Leger. Chichester, M.P. for Trim,; born June, 1718; mar. 1743; died 1757. :Hon. Elizabeth Wel- lesley, dau. of Richard, lft Lord Mornington. I John, born 1719. — lft, Hon. MARY=pTH0MAS,=p2nd, Mary, Anne, born 1 720 ; died unmar. 1751. (1) Chichester, eldeft fon, of Donoughmore= Down, a Col. in the Army; mar. 1681. 1 I Lettice, mar. Rev. Thomas Tisdall. I Anne, un- mar. Frii Efq. r Thom b. 16* d. 176! William Henry, Earl of= Frances, dau. of Clermont, born 1722 ; Right Honble. died 1806. General Murray. Pakenham, dau. of Lord Longford, mar. 1770. M.P. for Trim, b. 1744; d. 1778. dau. of Edward Nicholson, Efq. Richard, born 1749; died 1774- Admiral Sir ; Chichester, born 1750; died 1820. FRANCES Anne, d. ofD. Jones, Efq., of Bensfort. Gerald, born 1751 ; died 1787. ^Eliza- beth, dau. of John Tew, Efq. Eliza- =5th Mar- l__ BETH, born April 3, 1745, died Dec. 27, 1787. QUIS of Lothian. Thomas James, of Ravenfdale Park, M.P., born 1 760 ; died 1795, unmar. Chichester, died an infant. Eliza- beth, died young. 1 I Anna Maria, born July 6, 1773 ; mar. Jan. 1802, to Wil- liam Parkinson Ruxton, M.P. for Ardee ; died Aug. 25, 1865 ; no iflue. Chichester, born Aug.- 12, 1777, M.P. for Hills- borough ; Lieut.-Col. Louth Militia ; mar. 1809 ; died Nov. 25, 1826. Martha Angel, dau. Harriett,=Right Hon of S. Meade-Hobson, Efq., of Muckridge Houfe, Youghal ; (he died Nov. 25, 1824. mar. 1812 ; d. 1816, leaving iflue. George Knox, fon of lft Viscount Northland. Thomas, Lord Clermont,=Lady Louisa G. Wandesford born March 9, 1815 ; Butler, 3rd dau. of James, mar. Sept. 26, 1840. Marquis of Ormonde. Chichester Samuel, Lord Carling-=Francis, Dowager C01 ford, born Jan. 18, 1823; mar. Jan. Waldegrave, dau. of J 20, 1863. Braham, Efq. ; died Ju 1879- N AND RAVENSDALE. scue of Buck-= Chichester of le of Wight. Hon. Anne Moore, dau. of ift Viscount Moore, died 1634. I Roger, unmar. Garret, unmar. William, unmar. (1) Lettice, mar. to Sir Thomas Meredith, Knight. (2) Eleanor, mar., lft, to Thomas Burnet, Efq., killed in the fer- vice of King Charles I. 2ndly, to Brent Moore, Efq., of the family of Moore Place, in Kent. (3) Mary, unmar. (4) Elizabeth, unmar. (5) Alice, unmar. ide, dau. of Francis Hall, Mount Hall, Down. (2) William of Newragh, born about 1 64 1 i =7 = MaRO ABET, dau. and heir of Nicholas a Capt. in the Army; mar. 1 68 1 ; d. 1734. Gernon, Efq., of Miltown, Louth. ^Elizabeth, dau. of James Hamilton of Tollymore, filler of I ft Earl of Clanbrassil. 1 I Chichester of Dellin, died 1747, unmar. Matthew, R.N. (See Stepbenjlown Pedigree.) 1 1 Faithful of =pElizabeth, dau. .John, in Holy =j= Elizabeth , dau. of Corderry ; M.P. for Louth, 1727; died 1740. of Thomas Tipping of Caftletown Orders, died about I 782 ; mar. 1729. 1 1 T Hon. James of =pMARY Henrietta, dau. of Margaret, born •nfdale Bark, born Orby Hunter, Efq., of 1728; mar. Sir died 1782. Crowland, Lincolnfhire. Arthur Brooke. Faitiiful,-y"Maria, dau. of Henry Bklling- ham of Caftlebel- lingham. died June 4, 1785. John Smith, Efq., of Grange Lodge, Louth. (For the ijiue.fee Whiterath Pedigree.) wr I rancis, orn 742; nmar. 1 William Charles, Viscount Clermont, b. 1 764 ; d. 1829, unmar. I George, Maria, born 1763; Charlotte, born 1760; Emily Grace, born in Holy mar. lft, Capt. Sloper ; mar. Sir Harry Good- 1 778; mar. 181 1 to Orders, 2nd, G. P. Barlow, Efq. ; ricke, Bart.; died 1842, Major Grantham b. 1769; died 1853, having had having had one (on, Sir of Ketton Grange, d. 1798, a daughter, Maria, died Harry James Good- Rutland; d. 1864, unmar. unmar. ricke, d. unmar. 1833. no iflue. Faithful of Corderry, b. 1781 ; d. 1844 ; mar. dau. of . . . Burston, Efq. ; no iflue. ElIZABETiI, mar. to Captain Barry ; living in 1868. I 1 T I I I 1 1 Richard, Chichester, Sydney, Eliza- Frances Anne, Harriett, Thomas, = Louisa, A N M . sW. K. Hopkyns born born 1 794 ; a dau., beth, mar. lft, Kev. mar. to Civil Com- dau. of died Nbsftv of 1792 ; died 1876, died died George Hamilton ; K. Evan- millioner 1 RANCIS 1864, Oving Houfe, died unmar. 1841, 1822, 2nd, Kev. George son, Efq., for Delhi. Eagf.r, leaving Bucks. 1806, unmar. un- H. Reads; died July and died born about Efq. iflue. unmar. mar. 1 875 ; leaving iflue. 1830. 1782; died S.P. 1872. 1 1 1 ' T 1 n Martha Anne, b. Aug.=rREv. Edward M. Hamilton Mary Fi.orinda, Harriet Angelina,— David Urquhart 1 1, 1810 ; mar. Dec. 2, of Brown Hall, who d. May b. Awr. 5, 1818; b. Nov. 14, 1 824 ; of Cromarty, Efq., 1828, and has iflue. 16, 1861. died 1820. mar. Sept. 5, 1854, who died May 17, and has iflue. 1 877- Sir Faithful Forte/cue. Chap. XI. The Forte/cues of Dromijkin and Raven/dale. E now revert to a branch of the Buckland-Filleigh Fortefcues, beginning with Sir Faithful Fortefcue, who was patted over in his place, in order that the narrative of the elder line feated there might be carried down without interruption to its clofe. It will there be found that John Fortefcue of Buckland-Filleigh, who, by his firft wife, was father of Roger his fuccefior, married, as his fecond wife, Sufannah Chichefter, daughter of Sir John Chichefter, of Raleigh near Barnftaple, by Gertrude, daughter of Sir William Courteney, of Powderham, and fifter to Elizabeth Chichefter, wife of Hugh Fortefcue of Filleigh, now Caftlehill. By this fecond marriage John Fortefcue had iflue two fons, John, the eldeft, who died unmarried, and Faithful, thefubject of this memoir; alfo two daughters, Grace and Anne. Sir Faithful Fortescue. Sir Faithful, the fecond fon by the above marriage, his father's third and youngeft fon, could hardly have been born later than 1581 ; for in the year 1606 he was made Conftable of Carrickfergus Caftle,' a poft to which no one was likely to be appointed, in thofe warlike times, at an earlier age than twenty-five years. We know almoft nothing of his youth ; he tells us that he had his education, from coming young from fchool, with his uncle the firft Lord Chichefter, "and," he adds, "by him the foundation of my advancement, and fortune I acquired in Ireland." Lord Chichefter firft went to Ireland in command of a regiment in the year 1598 or 1599, and Sir Faithful in all probability went with him; although I cannot find any men- tion of him earlier than that of his appointment as joint Conftable of Carrickfergus, when his uncle had been two years Lord Deputy. Sir Roger Langford, Knight, was his colleague ; each of them having a fee of jj. 4^. per day, and twenty warders, who muft be Engliftimen, under their command at %d. per day each. Sir Faithful was afterwards fole Conftable with 6s. 8d. per day fee. There were, befides the falary, large emoluments attached to the office. The Conftable received the King's ftiare of the cuftoms of the port, and he and his warders had one hundred cows grazed Sec the King's Letter of Oftober 14, 1661, in Appendix. Nov. 14th w as the date of the appointment. 170 Family of Dromijkin, etc. free by the Corporation. He had alfo the tithe of the beft fifh that were brought into the port, and a " fair lodging " in the caftle. He was always a perfon of high rank and truft, according to M c Skimmin, from whofe hiftory of Carrickfergus the foregoing particulars are taken. This place was alfo called Knockfergus. It was long the chief feat and garrifon of the Englifh in Ulfter. The caftle ftands well on the weftern fhore of Belfaft Lough, where it is a confpicuous object. His father, John Fortefcue, died early in 1604 (his will, dated February 10, 1603, being proved on the 5th of May in that year) ; an event which could not have made much difference in Sir Faithful's circumftances } for he was left only the modeft sum of fifty pounds ; in thefe terms : — " Item, I give and bequeath unto Faithfull Fortefcue my fon 50 pounds in money to be paid within fix years next after my death." 1 To this was added, after the cuftom of thofe days : — " Item to the faid Faythfull Fortefcue my fon, a good feather-bed with his bolfter, meets and blankets, and alfo my fecond beft gelding (the beft had been left to his elder brother, John, with 50/. and a feather bed) with his faddle and other furniture." The family eftate charged with thefe two legacies, and with the comparatively large fums of 300/. each for his two daughters — equalling about 3000/. each at the prefent value of money— went to his eldeft brother, Roger. Soon after he was eftablifhed at Carrickfergus Sir Faithful married the Honourable Anne Moore, daughter of Gerald, or Garret, firft Vifcount Moore, anceftor of the prefent Marquis of Drogheda, belonging to the family of Moor of Moor Park, in Kent. By this lady, who died September 5, 1634, and was buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral, 2 he had, according to Lodge, no fewer than ten fons and fix daughters. Of thefe fixteen children five died young. In the year 16 10, 8th of James I., he obtained a patent granting " to Faithful Fortefcue, Efquire, and Francis Blundell, Efquire, three parts out of four of the benefit of intrufions, and alienations without licenfe, and concealed wardfhips in Cork county, the other fourth to remain with the Crown." And on the 27th of January, 16 12, another patent grants to him "the wardfhips of Callough, otherwife Charles O'Connor, fon and heir of Daniel O'Connor, late of Sligo, Efquire, deceafed." 3 Such were fome of the modes of rewarding the fervants of the Crown at that time. In the year 1613 a new Parliament was fummoned; when many places in Ireland, beyond the Englifh pale, returned members for the firft time ; among them was Charlemont 1 John Fortefcue's Will in Diftri& Regiftry Court of Exeter. See Appendix. 2 Lodge. 3 See Repertory of the Patent Rolls of Chancery in Ireland. Sir Faithful Fortefcue. in the County of Armagh, for which " Faithful Fortefcue, Efquire, of Dromyfkin," was chofen member on the i2thofMay, 1613. This defignation mows that he had already begun to live at Dromifkin, finding Carrickfergus and his Antrim manor too diftant from the feat of Government at Dublin. Dromifkin is incidentally mentioned in a contemporary narrative by Sir Edward Brereton, who thus writes : "July 8, 1635. — We left Dundallce 1 and came to Tredagh (Drogheda), which is accounted fixteen miles, but they are as long as twenty -two miles. About five miles hence, i. e. from Dundallce, we faw Sir Faithful Fortefcue's houfe or caftle wherein for moft part he is refident, which he holds by a long leafe upon a fmall rent, under my Lord Primate of Armath. This is a dainty, pleafant, healthful, and commodious feat, and it is worth unto him about " This leafe ftill continues, and Sir Faithful afterwards bought a confiderable freehold eftate around it, ftill in the family. The caftle and grounds have long fince difappeared. It does not appear that he remained at this period altogether in Ireland. In 1617 he was in England, and in that year was knighted by King James. Chicheftcr ceafed to hold the reins of government in the year 16 15, but Fortefcue continued in his poft, employed under his fucceftbrs. His pofieflions continued to increafe; in the beginning of 1618 he obtains a grant from the Crown, dated May the 30th, of the territory of Oinaghartie, and all the lands which had been granted to Rory Oge Mac Cjuillane, by patent of the 10th of March, 5th of James I. They were fituate in the Lower Clandeboye, in the county of Antrim. The patent "ereds the lands into the Manor of Fortefcue, with one thoufand acres in demefne, and gives power to create tenures, to hold Courts Baron and Leet, and a monthly Court of Record ; to appoint Senefchals and Bailiffs ; to enjoy all waifs and ftrays; and to impark one thoufand acres, with free warren, chafe, and park." He alio acquired in the fame neighbourhood twenty-one townlands, forming in all a very extenfive territory. The village of Galgorm ftands within its bounds. The greater part of this, however, he fold within a few years' time, the licence to alienate being dated in 1624. It was fold in equal fliares to two Scotchmen, namely, Mr. F.dmonftone, of Dunrcath, and Mr. William Adair, Laird of Kinhilt, in Galloway. The fhare of this laft ftill continues in his family, and is now the property of Lord Waveney, yielding about fix thoufand pounds a year. Edmonftone's half, including the Manor of Fortefcue, parted by inheritance to the Moore family, and was fold a few years ago by the prefent Earl of Mountcafhel, when part of it was bought by its prefent owner, Lord Waveney. The Manor of Fortefcue is ftill designated by that name. 2 Sir Faithful alfo poflefled in Antrim the lands of Gortfadda,' and other 1 Brcreton's Journey, p. 134, printed by the Chetham Society. 2 For much of the foregoing information I am indebted to the Very Revd. Doctor Reeves, Dean of Armagh. 3 Inquis. Rot. Cone. I lib. Repcrtorium Ultonia, No. 1 20, Carolus I. (a. d. 1637), Antrim. 172 Family of Droinijkin, etc. denominations not included in the foregoing territory. A rather remarkable relic of Sir Faithful's occupation of his Antrim eftate came to light fome years ago, namely, an ancient feal of arms, as mown in the annexed woodcut, with the words " S. Richart Fortefcu." It was found either upon or clofe to the former Fortefcue property. The arms are thofe of the Norman F'ortefcues, viz., a bend, not engrailed, be- tween two bendlets, quartering the arms of the Englifh Fortefcues, where the bend is engrailed. This coat implies a marriage-alliance between one of the Norman and one of the Englifh houfes. The feal has been pronounced by experts to be French of the fourteenth or fifteenth century. Eighteen years later, in the year 1863, when examining the roll, dated a. d. 1628, of the proofs of the defcent of Sir Nicholas Fortefcue, already defcribed. in a previous chapter, I perceived that the feal above mentioned was identical with one figured upon that document, with an infcription below it, as follows : 1 — " Hasc figura refert figillum antiquum Familiae Fortefcutorum nuperrime repertum a Nobiliflimo viro Fideli de Fortef- cuto de Filley Equiti aurato inter numifmata Johannis Terdefkhen Belgi qui habitat Lam- beth trans Tharnefin Londini." Thus in a very unexpected, way the pofleflion by Sir Faithful of the feal found in Antrim was proved and accounted for. About the fame time 2 he acquired lands in Down, near to Scarva, by purchafe from the native family of Maginnis. This eftate, which was foon very thickly "planted" with Scottifh fettlers, remained in his direct defcendants until the year 1827, when it was fold, during the minority of the writer of this account, by his guardians, to the late Marquis of Downfhire for ,£68,000. The diftrict is ftill known in the neighbourhood as " Fortefcue Eftate." Fortefcue was, in 1624, appointed to the command of a company in the contingent raifed to ferve under Count Mansfeldt in the Low Countries againft Spain and Auftria ; 3 1 It is thus in Englifh : — " This figure reprefents an ancient feal of the Family of the Fortefcues, lately found by Sir Faithful Fortefcue of Filleigh, Knight, in the collection of John Terdefkhen (Tradefcant) a Fleming, living at Lambeth beyond the Thames, in London." This collection of antiquities was afterwards placed in the Afhmolean Mufeum at Oxford. The feal was dug up near " the Old Battery," at Portglenone, on the 15th of January, 1845, together with fome human bones and fome coppeF coins of Louis XIII. of France, dated 1634. A wax impreffion from the original was fent to me by a relation of the Alexander family, the prefent proprie- tors of Portglenone, a few months after the difcovery, and from it the woodcut was made. The feal itfelf has been fince lost or miflaid. There were feveral perfons named Richart Fortefcu in Normandy in the fifteenth century, but we have no record of any intermarriage with an Englifh namefake. 2 Inquis. Rot. Cone. Hib. Repertorium Ultonia, No. 35, Carolus I. Down. 3 See the letters of Chichefter to Conway, dated Sept. 1624 and Nov. 3, 1624, and of Conway to Chichefter Nov. 17, 1624, in the State Paper Calendars, Domeftic, 1623-25. Sir Faithful Fortefcue. out as there is a letter, here given, written by Lord Chichefter, then fitting as a member of the Council of War, to Secretary Conway, making intereft with the Duke of Buckingham, the King's favourite minifter, to get for Sir Faithful in exchange a company in the troops defigned for Ireland, it is unlikely that he ever embarked for the Continent. The defired exchange was, at all events, effected, and he employed himself in 1625 in raifing men for the Irifh fervice in Cumberland. We find a lift of fifty names 1 of men levied for him by the Deputy Lieutenants of that county in March of that year. Lord Chichester to Secretary Conway. 2 Sir, Upon the receite of the inclofed from your brother, I thought it not amifle to haften them unto your honor, for that I conceive in fome poyntes he expects anfwer or advice from you, and I have now a meflenger by whom I maye tranfmitt it unto him if you pleafe to fend it me. I geve you hartie thankes for fettinge downe my nephew Frances Bafiett for a captain in this employment under the Count Mansfeilde, he fhall do as others do albeit in my opinion they are to receive the Commaund of their men upon hard conditions, if your fervant miftooke not your directions in penninge the letters : wee underftand not how manie men fhall be under a cullers, nor who are the collonclls nor the divifion of the Captains under the collonclls, upon what foote they fhall ferve for paye ; in thefe and fome thinges elfe wee of the Councell of Warr have prayd your honors more ample and playne directions. In the late lift I finde my nephew S r . Faythfull Fortefcue, I never fought to gett him a companie in this employment under Count Mansfeild, but I prayd my Lord the Duke to honor him with the commaund of one of the companies to goe for Ireland, and I prayde your honor to further my Sute unto his Grace in his behalfe, and to putt his Lordfhip in minde of him when tyme ferves (as now I thinke it will.) your brother writt unto you in his behalfe and in placinge a companie upon him you will do us all a great kindnes wourthy acknowledgment. As SirCary Lambeart writtcs unto me he was promifed a companie in this emplovement with the Count, if it pleafe my Lord the Duke and you he maye have this companie alligned to S r . Faithfull Fortefcue, he is a brave younge gentleman and in conferringe of a companie upon him it will be a teftimonie that the fervices and deferts of his father are had in Remem- brance. The Earle of Thomound now with God, had a Troope of horfe and a companie of State Paper Calendars, Domeftic, 1623-25, March 16, 1 625. State Paper Calendars, Domeflic, 1623-25. >73 174 Family of Dromijkin, etc. foote in Irelande, his fonne is a noble lord, and beinge countenanced and fupported will be able to do the Kinge and Kingdome great fervice in thofe parts, I wim he might retayne the companie of foote, or beinge otherwife difpofed that he might have one of the companies now to be fent thether, which I conceive to be wourthy of as much confideration as anie one perticulare concerninge the good Governement of thofe parts as anie that can come into debate which I recommend to your noble refpect of the younge Lord and of the publique. In our memorialls unto you, I finde that the care of fendinge minefters of the worde of God with thefe Troopes to goe with the Count Mansfeild is omitted, thofe that goe anie wher, or into anie action without Gods bleflinges can not profper, and how can wee expect that God will blefle our indevours when wee neglect to ferve him, and how can foldiars ferve him without teachers to inftruct and call upon them to humble themfelves before him ; I praye thinke upon this as a matter of greateft moment and fpare not to putt the Kinge in minde of it, his majefties owne fpeeches are A fore principium. I am your honors in much love and fervice Arthur Chichester. Weftminfter the 11 th of November 1624. Att neight. (Indorfed) For Sir Edward Conwaye Knight principale Secretary of State. Lord Chichefter died in London on the 19th of February in the year 1625. His remains were taken for burial in the following October to Carrickfergus, where Sir Faithful attended the funeral. 1 He there, at the head of the body, carried the banner of Courtenay of Powderham, while his fecond fon, John Fortefcue, carried at its feet that of Bourchier, another Devonfliire name. From the letter which follows it would appear that he was able at this time, while ferving with his company, to reflde in his own houfe at Dromifkin. 2 Noble S r This bearer Geo: Gernon a fouldier of my company had a Nagg stowlen from him by one Henry Backagh M c Ardell as he fuppofeth who now dwells upon M'. Talbotts land of Caftle Ring. I befeech yo u take the matter into yo 1 confideracon & proceede therein as yo u in yo' difcretion mail thinke meete, affording this honeft man yo r power in healping him to his Nagg & apprehention of the Theefe. 1 Ulfter Journal of Archaeology, vol. ix. p. 196. 2 Sloane MS. Brit. Mus. The feal attached to this letter is the original of the woodcut on the oppofite page. THE HIGUT WISH AND VALIANT ARTHUR CIIR'HKSTER, FIRST LORD (.11 U 1 1 1- I I I: {Frvm an vltl I'rint). Sir Faithful Forte/cue. iy 5 I told yo u what a receptacle of Theeves thofe lands of Caftle Ring weare, & how they weare prefented by Jury at a Quarter Seflions held at Ardee whereupon I layd my fouldiers on them till they weare taken oft' by my L. Deputies warr". as yo u may fee by thefe inclofed coppies, w' h will allfoe fhew yo u the names of fuch malefactors as weare prefented by the Jurye. There now corns to yo u w ,h this bearer a Tenant of myne one Tyrlagh Kindalan who had 15 Sheepe ftowlen from him upon Tuefdaye lafte at night & weare droven over the Bridge of Afane by 2 men as he heeres, By this yo u may underftand what reakes are playd by the Borderers, who y' feems have (harpe hungry ftomakes, that will fteale leane fheepe at this feason of the yeere. Pray afforde the poore man what afliftance yo u may for recovery of his Goods, And thus being in hafte I give yo u to my Brother Floyd the remcbrance of my fervice and ame Yo r affectionate true frind to ferve yo u , Fa"yth: Fortescue. Druniifkin, 15 Febr: 1627. Addreffed To my ho hl( ' good friend S r . W ,n . Windfor, Kn'. thefe at Ardee. Sir Faithful drew up the following (ketch of Lord Chichefter's life : — An Account of the Rt. Honourable Arthur, firjl Lord Chichester, Lord Deputy of Ireland, by his Nephew, Sir Faithful Fortescue, Knight. Arthur Lord Chichefter, Barron of Bellfaft, in the county of Antrim, in the Province of Ulfter, in the north of Ireland, was a younger fonne of S' John Chichefter, of Rawly, near Barneftable in Devonfhire, 1 where he attained to cappacity for the Univerfity ; he was fent to Oxford, and was of Exetter Coledge. He was only a Gramer Schollar, and being very active, ftrong, and Ingeinous, tooke affection to a millitary courfe. He went firft into Ireland, takeing with him for companion Bartholemew Fortcfcue my Fathers younger Brother, whom he much loved, and he being, as I have often heard his Lo 1 '. fay, very good company, a valiant ftrong man, and one of the beft wreftlers in thofe times ; they ftayd awhile with S r . Georg Bourchier, who was then Mafter of the Ordinance in Ireland, and fonne of the Earle of Bath, and Father of this Earle, a noble gentleman. They had been actors (with other young gentlemen) of a youthfull rafh trick in England, for which they fled into Ireland, and when their friends had obtained their pardon of Queen Elizabeth they returned to England, foon after my Lord Chichefter (who was then but mafter Chichefter) adventured abroad for advancement, and ffortefcue turned fea Cap 1 , and died in that By his wife Gertrude, daughter of Sir William Courtcnay, of Powdirham. ijb Family of Dromijkin^ etc. imploy mt . Chichefter was afterward made Cap 1 , of one of the Queen's beft mips, under command of the Lord Sheffield, at the fea fight with the Spanifh Armado in 88. He had the command of one of the Queen's mips with 500 men in S\ Francis Drake's laft voyage to Weft Indies. S r . Francis then died there. He was a vollunteer in the Earle of Eflexe's voyage to Spayne, and at Cades, Cap 1 . Paul Chichefter, who was an able darring man, being flayne with a bullet, the E. of EfTex gave him his company : he was Sergeant Major Gen", of the Queen's army in Pickardy, under command of S r . Thomas Bafkerville, and at the fiege of Ameons was fhott in the moulder, and for his courragious good fervice, then (and in thofe warrs) was knighted by King Henry the fourth. When thofe Civill warrs were ended he went into the Low Countries, where he had a company of 200 men which then was his fubfiftance, but S r . Rob'. Cicell, Secretary of State to the Queen, being very much his noble friend, telling her Majeftie what pitty it was fo able a gentleman mould bury his time in that country with a fingle company, he haveing imployment for him in Ireland where his brother S r . John Chichefter was flayne with a bullet, 1 got leave of the Queen to fend for him (he being then garrifond at Oftend) and to employe him in the Service of Ireland, with a Regm 1 . of 1 200 men, with which command he was fent thither, and according to his commiffion landed them with himfelf at Dublin, S r . Adam Loftus of Rathfern am . Lord Chancelor, and S r . Robert Gardner, Lord Chiefe Juftice, being Lords Juftices in the intervale between the death of the Lord Burrows, Lord Deputy, (who dyed at the Newry) and the comeing of the Earle of EfTex, Lord Lieutenant. From Dublin he was fent with his Reg 1 , to garrifon at Tradath. 2 Within a fhort time after the Earle of EfTex arrived at Dublin with the Gallantree of England, and hearing much in praife of S r . Arthur Chichefter, and perfection of his Regment, made a jorney purpofly with his Gallants to fee them, and S r , Arthur haveing drawn his Regm 1 . up in a fayre field and exercifed them perfectly (at which he was excelent) they being in clofe order, the Earle thinking to put a fally on them by breaking thorow them, charged at them with his Galant Cavallrie, but the Collonell (not being ufed to receive foyles) had fo ordered his Pikes as they forc't the Earle to a carry coale, and upon his wheele a faucie fellow with his Pike prickt his Lords 1 ', (faveing y r reverence) in the rump, and made him bleed, 'fo, he haveing enough of that fmarting fport, he retreated, giveing the Collonell and his Reg 1 , high Prayfe ; his Lord 1 ', ftayd but a fhort while in Ireland ; then came S r . Charles Blunt, Lord Mountjoy, Lord Deputty, and was after Earle of Devonfhire, who within few moneths made S r . Arh r . Chichefter Serjeant Major Gen", of the Army, he well knowing his ftrong abillityes in ffrance, and the Low countries, where they had been intimate friends. S r . 1 He was killed by the MacDonnells of Antrim in 1597. It is to be remarked that this Sir John had an elder brother, alio Sir John, who died at Exeter in 1 585. 2 Now Drogheda. Sir Faithful Forte/cue. 177 Harry Danvers who was afterward made by K. James Lord Danvers, and Earle of Danby, was before Major Gen". About fix moneths after, he was made Governor of Carrickfergus, and thofe parts, which being fo farr off from the Lord Gen", as he coud not attend to receive and diftribute his orders, S r . John Barkly was made Major Gen", who about a year after was flayne with a bullet on takeing of an Ifland in a Lough called Maherle'coo, in the County of Armagh. Then was S r . Arthur Chichefter made Major Gen", againe, and at length had that office by Patent dureing life, and after his invadeing the County of Tyrone by boats over Logh Neagh from Mafierin, in the County of Antrim, and raifeing a fort at his landing place, which was after named Mountjoy, he was made Govern', thereof and the adjacent contry, by Pattent, and Admyrall of Logh Neagh, by the name of Logh Chichefter. The next year, the Queen dying, King James made the Lord Deputy Mountjoye Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and S r . Arthur Chichefter, S r . Harry Doewry, andS'. W m . Godolphin, privy Councellors of Ireland, which was when they were upon their march with the army in Munfter to reduce the Citty of Waterford, Cork, and Limerick, that rebeled and wold not proclyme King James as their King ; but they were forced to it, and fome of the chief actors hanged at Cork. The next fpring the Lord Lieut, went for England, all being at Peace in Ireland, foe did S r . Arthur Chichefter ; and S'. George Carry of Cockenton, in Devonfhire, who was then Treasurer in Ireland, was for the prefent left Lord Deputty ; and about 2 years after, or Iefs, it being in 1604, S r . Arthur Chichefter was made Lord Deputty, which he held twelve years, which was longer than ever any did before or fince; and towards his end of that Gover'. he was made Barron of Belfaft, his own town, and after his rendering up of the Kings fword, was made Lord high Treafurer of Ireland. Then he retyred to his eftate and Gover 1 . in Ulfter, and about 3 years after was by letter from King James calld into England and imployd Ambaflader to the Princes of the union in Germany ; and in ftiort time after his returne was made one of the Councill of war, and within few moneths, one of the Lords of the Privy Councell of England, and in few years after dyed at London much lamented by all that knew him. He was burried at Carrickfergus, where he had built the nobleft Houfe in the kingdom, and had prepared a neat Tomb to receive him when God fhoud pleafe to fend him to it. He was one fo farr from Ambition and covetoufnefs that he, neither by friends nor of himfelf, moved for advancement Millitary or Civill, but ftill it was conferred on him un- fought, as all thofe commands and honours were which he had by the favor of S r . Rob'. Cicell, Earle Salifbury, the Earle of Devonfhire, and laftly, from King James ; foe likewife was his Knighthood by the King of France ; all which certainly wold not have been laydon him had he not been a very meriting man, and of fuch deportment as gained him generall good opinion and love. i 7 8 Family of Dromijkin^ etc. To my knowledge, the Earle of Devonfhire, in time of his being Lord Deputty, fayd he wonderd at S r . Arthur Chichefter, for others preft him for many things, but he for nothing ; but grumbled like a Right Weftern Man, and that he had twice made him Major Gen", and given him two Govern 15 , thofe of Carrickfergus and Tyrone, and knew not what more to do for him at prefent, but make him Lieut'. Generall of the Army, which he wold doe if he found him grumbling ftill — and then, unless he could make him Gen 11 , and Lord Deputty, he had done as much as was in him to do for him ; at length he made him both, loveing of him very much. He never fought the honnor of a Barron, nor knew it was comeing to him untill the firft Lord Caulfield, who was then S r . Toby Caulfield, brought him a Patent for it from the King, as a prefent from S r . Humphry May, who had in England the manage and difpofall of all Iriih affaires, and procured it for him, loveng Him heartily, they being ancient acquaintances and friends. I well knew that when King James, by his letters of favor and grace, called my Lord Chichefter into England in 1613, he being then Lord Deputy, S r Humphry May (who had ftrong power with the King) offerd to get him made an Earle, and, as I heard, Knight of the Garter, if he would but court a little the then Favorite, the Earle of Somerfett, which he faid he could not doe, and that he had more honnor by being a Barron than his Eftate could (becoming a Noble Man) fupport. He moved not to be a Privy Councellor of England, King James knowing well his abillities, his well deferveings, and his difcreet and honorable manage of his Negotiations in his Embaffage in Germany, did it of himfelf. He was noe very good orator, but had a fingular good Expreffion with his pen, fublime and fuccinkt, according to the fubject whereof he wrote, and the perfon to whom ; his letters to King James were fo acceptable, as he gave him encouragement and command to write often to him ; and once, when the King received a letter from him, he gave it to his favorite, Somerfett, bidding him learn it without book, faying he had not received fuch a letter fince he was King of England — and the Secretary of State, the Earle Salisbury, and Lords of the Councill, would give the Lynes high prayfe. He was a greate Statefman, and good Common-wealths man, and as knowing, able a Souldier as any of our Nation in thofe Tymes ; he was a carefull performer of his managements, and keeper of his word ; noe man knew his compofition and difpofition better than myfelf, therefore I may, with confidence and truth, fay this : that he was a man of great Honor, Piety, prudence, Juftice, bounty and valour; very Hofpitable, Charitable, affable, and excellent good company within and with- out Doors, being a lover of all civill becoming sports, games, and recreations. His Eftate was all of his own acquifition by faire purchafe, only the King gave him S r . Cahier O'Dogherties country, it being by his rebellion Efcheat to the crown ; and he, with his adherents, being cutt off by the induftry and activity of my Lord Chichefter, that land was Sir Faithful Fortefcue. 179 then worth about 1000/. a year within thofe times of danger; and in that Kingdom, and at the furtheft point North, was noe great Gift or reward from a King to a Subject that had been 12 years his Viceroy, and fo well a Deferver. His eftate, being about 8000/. a year, he left to his good brother, S r . Edward Chichefter, who alfoe inherited his honnor of Barron of Belfaft, and in fhort time after was made Vifn'. of Carrickfergus and Governor of that towne and country, and 3 or 4 years before his death his fonn was made by King Charles Earle of Dunnagall in the North of Ulfter, in which country he hath 20 miles of land at leaft; he was bred with and by his noble uncle Arthur Lord Chichefter, and in much is a good coppie of that originall. Upon the grand horrid rebellion in Ireland, he advanc't, at his own charge, a Regm'. of horfe, and a Regm\ of foot, for the Service of the King, and did very acceptable Service, he being a gallant gentle- man, couragious, fteddy, juft, and noble-hearted. With the firft Lord Chichefter, that man of great Honor and noble Endowments, I had from coming young from fchool my education, and by him the foundation of my advance- ment, and fortune I acquired in Ireland. Ffayth: Ffortescue. In 1632 Lord Wentworth (afterwards Earl of Strafford) was appointed Lord Deputy; he, before his arrival in Ireland, commiffioned Sir Faithful to raife him a troop of horfe, an honour which he grumbled at considerably on the fcore of trouble and expenfe without pay or profit, as detailed in the following ftatement : — Sr. Faithful Fortescue's relation of paffages of the Earle of Strafford, concearmng himfelfe, giuen to y' Ld. Lieut, in y yeere 1645. About 15 monethes before the Earle of Strafforde came Lord Deputie into Ireland hee fente mee a warrant to raife him a Troope of horfe and cofnanded them as his Capt. Lieu', vnfought or vnknowne to me vntill my receipt of the warrant, and w Ih in i6dayes after I had his Troope full in the Fickle of proper men well horfte (as is well knowne to fome yet in beeing in and neare Dublin) And condicoiied w"' them not to expe<5te pay vntill the arriuall of his Lop. in Ireland, or untill they fhould bee prefented vnto a mufter from w' h I kepte them notw' h ftanding the Mufter-M'. Generall called often at mee to giue him a lifte and view of them vntill his Lo 1 '. came over, by w'Meuice I brought all their pay for 13 monethes into his Lo 1 ' 8 . purfs, but fome fortie or fiftie pound w' h I diltributed amongeft them at feucrall times to encourage them w lh chcerfulnefs and patience to attendance, they belecuing that his Lo 1 '. at his coming would giue them fome handfome confideracon for it. But his Lo 1 '. w th in few dayes after his arriuall difcharged 40 t,<: of them at a blow to make roome for his gentle- men and other feruants and gaue not them, nor any of the reft that ftayed in the Troope any thing, But left them to clamour and rayle at mee for theire foe coarfe ufage hauing kepte i8o Family of DromiJkin y etc. themfelues and horfes foe longe without pay, Howfoeuer I not only fhuffled them of ill— fauoredly but agreed w th thofe that remained, toferve for loli. a yeere and keepe theireowne horfes, foe did I w th all other that afterwards came into the Troope, foe as I faued to his Lo p . 5 s. out of euery mans pay yearly, untill the pretended expedition to Scotland or North of England or I know not wheare, for then his Lo p . ordered mee to giue them the kings full pay w ch accordingly I aflured them but could not get it for them, foe as they likewife bauld at mee as thinking mee faulty therein and I loft love with them. When this unfortunate imployment to mee was caft on mee my refidence was at my poor home in the Countie of Louth (where I could haue lived at more eafe to my perfon and purfe, then I did during my attendance on his Lo p . but to (hew my thankfulnefs to him for the honor he had done mee in making me his officer foe frankly w lh out my feeking, I (to bringe myfelfe at a nearer diftance of attending his person and feruice) bought a leafe of a houfe in Dublin which coft mee two hundred fine and ten pound a yeare rent, remoued my wife and family from home thether, putt my felfe to an expence with men horfes and many other waies more then I needed to haue done in the Cuntry, waited on his Lo p . in England, and euer w th affection and diligence attended him and his feruice, and I thinke liued foe be- coming a gentleman and his officer as I did him noe difhonour nor difleruice, and neuer had anything of him in all his time, but a hundred and twenty pounds or thereaboutes, being part of my entertainment w ch at twife hee fent mee ; indeed I thought he would haue given mee fome caft of his fauor fome time or other w ch induced mee to make fome reafonable requeftes to him but they thriued not handfomely w th mee, w ch were foure onely and noe more. The firft was that hee would pleafe to helpe mee to i looli. arreare of entertainment due to mee for my foote company and my ward of his Mat 1 ". Caftle of Knockfargus, w ch hee faid hee could not doe it being an arreare before his time, but if I could procure a particular re- commendation to him for it from the King hee would finde a way how to helpe mee to it, w ch accordingly I got from his Mat ie . w ch coft me loli. to Secretary Windebanke but could never get his Lo p . to help mee to any of my money. The fecond was that his Lo p . would confer my foote Company vpon my fonne Chichefter Fortefcue who had volunteird it in his Troope two yeares w ch his Lo p . refufed though he had donne it for the fonnes of the Lord Baltinglafs, Lord Blany and S r . John Burlafs, but a while after upon confideracon (as ftiould feeme) how ill it would become him not to grant mee equall favor, in foe poore a particuler, Hee fent mee (by his Brother) a farr fetcht reafon of his not doing my requeft at firft, and notwithftanding hee would doe my defire therin, but hee had foe fullied it by his former deniall of it, as I would not have had it, had I durft have fcorned it. The third was that about i yeares after my fonne had my Company S r Robert Loftus dying and his Lo p . then in England I (by letter to S r Geo. Wentworth) befought his Lo p . to giue mee his Company, but I had a coynd excufe retorted to mee for that. Sir Faithful Forte/cue. My laft requeft was that the Lord Caufeield beeing dead I might haue his Company hauing mift the former, but to that I neuer had replie. Soe as I had the ill luck that his Lo 1 '. was not advantagious to mee in hono r or eftate for my poore eftate that I had before I faw him, A Lord Deputies Capt. Leif I had for- merly beene 7 yeares a Capt. of a foote Company, I was when hee came, and Cunftable of his Ma"". Caftle of Knockfargus, and to this hee added nothing, but was pleafed to rewarde my long attendance and feruice with difgrace, for when hee was in his laft trobles and in the Tower hee by letter ordered his Steward to difcharge mee from my coiiland of his Troope, without (hewing reafon for it, as if I had beene his Mercinary feruant or Scullion, of his kitchen (and not the King's officer) to bee throwne owt by the tounge of his Steward, but I could not bow to his Lo ,!i . hurling mee of foe ill-fauoredly and indeede vnfouldierly of him that was foe great a Generall without laying any mifcarriage to my charge and bringing mee thereupon to a triall at a court of warr ; wherfore I helde my place till hee died and then quitted it, But thought it not a peece of difcretion to quitt my pay due for my nine yeares feruice, therfore I required it of his Lo ps . Steward M'. Carpenter who by accounte found about 400//. to bee due to mee at the kings bare pay at 34//. per anil, aboue w cl> hee could not reckon w th mee, though his Lo 1 '. had ordered mee w tb the reft of the Captaines of foote companies to giue our Leivetenants 50//. a yeare and that noe Generall or priuate Captaine euer held theire Leiuetenant to the kings bare pay if they were of a deferuing capafitie. And I had formerly when I was a Lord General Is Capt. Leiut. a hundred pounds a yeare and what profitt I could make by his Troope, But I come not to lay the poore kind of ufage 1 had at laft for matter of pay vpon his Lo 1 \ Steward as a faulte, hee hauing not power to deale better w Ih mee, But in this I thinke hee did not handfomely, that after hee had giuen mee an afllgnement to the Vice Treafurer for my pay due upon account hee mould demande and receive it from him in my abfence, and now not make mee repayment thereof vpon my ciuill intreaties, having had it in his hands and employed it to aduantage this five yeares paft. And now that I have mewed that noe handfome requitall I have had from his Lo'. for my great expence of time, money, and induftry to doe him feruice, it may bee obiecled that fure I gaue him fome reafon to disfauor mee and ufe mee noe better, elfe hee that was foe noble would haue dealt more gallantly with mee; to that I fay and proteit to Almitie God I neither know nor can imagin any caufe hee could haue for it vnlefs he ftioulde make it of thefe, That I beeing foe nearely linckt to fome perfons of quallitie in this Kingdome that weare in oppofition againft him could not keepe my hearty loue and feruice to him (wherin hee caried a great mifunderftanding of mee) or for that 1 and S'. Robert l ; arrer in company w th others had talkt of his Lo 1 '. vifiting a Noble Lady w rh beeing toulde him by a falfe brother at an ill tone or worfe then merrolie was fpoken, his Lo''. queftioned mee roughly for 181 l82 Family of Dromijkin^ etc. it, but when hee vnderftood our talke (w ch I truly tould him) was to neither of their diftionors, hee feemed to bee well fatisfied, but I doubte hee was not, and that this and his ambiguety of my integretie to him were the motiues that induced him to throw mee out of his good opinion and fauor, other reafons hee could not haue, my confcience affuring mee I neuer trefpaft againft him in thought worde or deede, vntill his mewing his difaffections to me by denying mee foe poore a thing as a foote company (when I beleued hee thought I deferued a greater fauor of him) and the offering to oute mee of the comande of his Troope in fuch difgracefull manner and declention of my reputation, then I confefs I could not hould from paffionately fpeaking in vindecation of my felfe and condemnation of him for that, But I neuer appeared againft him in any thing but for what concerned my owne particular nor noe man can truly fay I did, or will auow it to my face though I haue heard it hath beene faid I mewed ingratitude to his Lo p . w ch I thinke I could not doe when hee by noe obliegation bound mee to him, but rather mewed ingratitude to mee. Faith. Fortescue. 1 Enclofed in the foregoing letter was a paper endorfed : — " 270 : 17:6 due to S r . Faith. Fortefcue for the Cunftablelhip of y e Caftle of Carrickfergus from y e yeare 1 640 to y e yeere 1645 &c." On the infide : — " Due to me for my perfonall Entertaynements as Cunftable of his Ma" e9 . Caftle of Knock- fergus at is. 6d. per diem from the lafte of Sep'. 1640 to the firft of Oct. 1645, as by warr tts . of full paye doth appeare ..... 270/. ijs. 6d." Ffayth. Ffortescue. Fortefcue was, in 1633, charged by the Lord Deputy to vifit the garrifons and military ftores in the province of Leinfter ; Strafford affirming that he and his colleagues in the other provinces would act " honeftly, ably, and impartially." 2 In 1634 a Parliament was called in Dublin, 3 to which Sir Faithful was elected; firft, on the 17th of June, for the borough of Dungannon ; and, on the 14th July, for the county of Armagh. His eldeft fon, Chichefter, defcribed as of Donoughmore, County of Down, fucceeding his father as member for Charlemont. With reference to this Parliament, we find the following paffage in Sir Edward Brereton's narrative of his journey : — " July 7th, 1635. — -This towne of Dundalke is governed by the Bailiffs, Sheriffs, and Aldermen. The greateft part of the inhabitants of the towne are popilhly affected, and altho' my Lord Deputy at the laft election of Burgeffes for the Parliament commended unto them Sir 1 Carte MS. xvi. 241. 2 Wentworth to Secretary Coke, October 23, 1633. 3 Liber Munerum, Hib. Sir Faithful Forte/cue. .83 Faithfull Fortefcue, and Sir Arthur Jerningham, yet they rejected both, and elected a couple of recufants." 1 In 1637 Sir Faithful repaired to the Low Countries, leaving England in Auguft of that year. His chief object being, as a contemporary letter relates, to vifit Breda " to fee what doings were there." The Dutch, under the Prince of Orange, were then preparing to invert the place, and they forced the Spaniards to furrender it after a three months' fiege. 2 It was at Breda that Sir Faithful was living in attendance upon Charles II. when, in 1660, the news of his reftoration was announced to the exiled King. In 1639 Faithful was again returned for Armagh County. In April, 1640,' he appears in a lift of officers of the army, appointed for the expedition to Scotland, to fupport the King's caufe there, which, however, never took place. Sir Faithful was to be attached to the Lord General's Regiment of Horfe. In the next year he makes the liberal offer to advance money for the pay of troops at Armagh, as will be feen in the following letter : — To the right honorable the Earle of Ormund and OJfory, Lieu'. Generall of His Ma"'', forces in Ireland, prefent. Right honorable and my mod honored good Lord, Haueing obferued yo r Lo r ps. Coniands by vertue of two patents figned under yo' Lo'ps. hand, to my Captaine, and Captaine Trappes, forthwith to rife and march to the Citty of Armagh, which accordingly wee have, and foe exactly that in our march wee had not the Complainte of the value of a (hilling ag' any of the twoe Companies; but how wee mall continue being willing (the relation to y' Lo'p. confidered) to gaine the good repute wee nowe haue and pleafe our men, wherby our Coniands to them may bee better obferued (money beinge morte) & nowe quite diminifhed, haue indeauored our felues by all the good words and perfwafions wee can to the towne to arTorde to the foldiers meate at twoe millings a weeke which the companies are willing to accept of, but the towne will noe way hearken to it, and generally conclude without money in hand they will arTorde noe releeife to the foldier, although wee are willing to engage our felues. which confidered doth put us to the furtheft of extremity what to doe, for neither having meate nor money, wee are very doubtfull of keeping them in foe good order as wee wifh, ard dayly and hourly mall endeuor to doe. Nowe foe it is may it pleafe yo r Lo'p. that S'. Faithfull Fortifcue beinge one of the cheefe in theife parts, whoe being defirous both for our good and the good of the cuntry, hath thought of a convenient way to pleafe both, and hath defired us to intimate foe much to yo' Lo'p. which is that if yo r Lo'p. and the ftate thinke fitt that the fubfidies nowe to bee 1 Brcrcton's Journey, in Clietham Society's Scries. : Cal. State Papers. 1637. Canbury. 3 Carte Papers. 184 Fa?nily of Dromijkin, etc. Leuied for this county, which will not bee foe fpeedy as hee could wifh for our releefe, doth voluntarily of himfelfe promife to bee our paymafter out of his owne purfe forthwith, hee being fecured from yo r Lo r p. and the ftate, by directions to bee paide out of the fubfidies, as they fhall bee collected. All this wee humbly offer to yo r Lo r ps gratious Confederation, and will allwayes Remayne as wee are, Yo r . Lops, mod humble feruants, Tho: Salvin, Robert King, Henrie Buttler, Edward Poyntz. Armagh Aprill the 23 th . 1641. 1 Very ftormy times were now approaching for the three Britifh kingdoms. The antagonifm of Charles and his Parliament was daily becoming greater ; while in Ireland, the rebellion of Sir Phelim O'Neale, and the horrid maffacre of the Proteftants, were deftined to complicate the political motives, and to embarrafs the actions of both Royalifts and Re- publicans. The growing interference with the executive by the Parliament, 2 from which it refulted that all who fought for preferment in the army were obliged to apply to leaders of the legiflature, appears in the following entries in the Journals of the Houfe of Commons. "Weftminfter, 27 January, 1641. 16 Car. I. — The humble petition of Sir Faithfull Fortefcue, Knight, was this day read. And it is ordered that he the faid Sir Faithfull Fortefcue be earneftly recommended to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for a Colonel's place in this fervice. This Houfe being very well fatisfied that he is a man of honnour and experience, and worthy of fuch an employment." " 28 January, 1641. Ordered that Sir Samuel Rolle and Mr. Carey fhall recommend Sir Faithfull Fortefcue to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, according to the order of yefterday." " February 1, 1641. Ordered that Sir Faithfull Fortefcue be recommended from this Houfe to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to be a Colonel! in one of thofe three Colonell's places prefented in the Lift to be void, and Sir Samuel Rolle is ordered to go with this Lift to the Lord Lieutenant." The Lord Lieutenant was the Earl of Leicefter, 3 who was fo nominated at Strafford's fall, but who had not as yet proceeded to Ireland. In October of this year, on the 24th of the month, the rebellion broke out in the north of Ireland, fo fuddenly and with fuch violence that the Proteftants were taken by furprife, 1 Carte MS. i. 230. 2 See Clarendon, ii. 22, referring, however, to fome months later. 3 Leland, iii. 107. Sir Faithful Forte/cue. 185 and the Irifh, almoft unoppofed, advanced towards the fouth, plundering and maflacring ; and were before long in the neighbourhood of Drogheda, the only fortified place between them and Dublin. Sir Faithful had, a fliort time before, been made governor of the town, which, fays the hiftorian Leland, " was by no means ftrong or well provided." 1 He continues, "On the firft alarm from the North, the Governor, Sir Faithful Fortefcue, had received a fmall reinforcement from Lord Vifcount Moore (his brother-in-law, who lived at Mellifont a few miles off). He prepared it for defence, reprefented to the Mate the neceflity of an additional fuccour, and offered even to raife foldiers at his own expenfe. His zeal was applauded, but he found his fervices by no means acceptable. Difcouraged, and difappointed of fupplies, he refigned his command ; and Sir Henry Tichbourne, a more adventurous officer, was fent to fucceed him." M Sir Faithful Fortefcue," (fays another author), " refigned his commiflion, not being willing to lofe his reputation, though he was forward enough to hazard hisperfon." 1 He left two of his fons in the garrifon, of whom his eldeft, Chichefter, a major in the army, and having a company raifed at his own charge in Lord Moore's regiment, died during the fiege ; and his fecond, John, was killed by the rebels there. He then at once, without more than a few days' delay, went to London to urge the Government to fend fupplies to Ireland, and employed himfelf in raifing men for that fervice. 3 In December of this year, 1641, we find him again recommended tor fcrvice by the Houfe of Commons.* 31ft Dec e mb e r , 1641. l< Ordered that Mr. Robert Goodwin and Mr. Carey do repair unto the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and from this Houfe recommend unto him Sir Faithful I Fortefcue for place of command in confideration that he has the keeping of the Caftle of Carrickfergus for his life by patent ; the which caftle is now agreed by this I Ioufe among other places, to be put into the hands of the Scotts." This arrangement with the Scotch Commiflioners, reluctantly entered into by the King under the pre flu re of the rebellion in Ireland, was carried out in April of the next year, when the firft Scotch detachment landed at Carrickfergus.* 1 Leland'a Hiftory of Ireland, iii. 1 56. 2 Hiftory of the Irifh Rebellion, traced from many preceding acls to the Grand Expedition to Dublin, 1/43, p. 44- a See Lift of the Field Officers for the Irifh Expedition, chofen by the Commiflioners at Guildhall. Carte MS. June, 1642. 4 Commons Journals, vol. ii. p. 364. 1 Leland, iii. 175. B B 1 86 Family of Dromijkin^ etc. The fame neceffity was ftrong enough to compel an agreement between the King and the Parliament to provide troops for the fpecial fervice of the reduction of Ireland, at a time when thofe two eftates were all but in arms againft each other. It was in this way that Sir Faithful raifed and commanded, as colonel, the Third Troop of Horfe engaged for the Irifh expedition, 1 for which the officers were chofen and appointed by the Commiflioners fitting at Guildhall in June, 1642 ; the king confenting to fign their commiflions. He alfo raifed for the fame fpecial fervice a company of foot, which afterwards was attached to the Earl of Peterborough's regiment, of which Sir Faithful's name appeared as lieutenant-colonel. The foot, as well as the horfe were, on the breaking out of the civil war, after the railing of the Royal Standard at Nottingham in Auguft, 1642, draughted into the Parliamentarian army, without any regard to the opinions or inclinations of officers or men. Sir Faithful's horfe had all aflembled, and had arrived at Briftol to embark for Ireland, but were now ordered and compelled to march to the midland counties, then under the authority of the Earl of Bedford, to join the army of the Earl of EfTex. In reference to this breach of contract, we find Charles complaining " that many foldiers raifed under pretence of being fent to Ireland, were, contrary to their expectation and engage- ment, forced to ferve under the Earl of EfTex againft the King; of which he named, with others, Sir Faithful Fortefcue's regiment of horfe." 2 It thus came to pafs that Fortefcue and his men found themfelves, on the 23rd of October, at Edgehill, arrayed in oppofition to their king, and to their own loyal fympathies and affections. What followed will be beft told in the words of Lord Clarendon. 3 In defcribing the battle he fays : " As the right wing of the King's horfe advanced to charge the left wing, which was the grofs of the enemy's horfe, Sir Faithful Fortefcue (who having his fortune and intereft in Ireland, was come out of that kingdom to haften fupplies thither, and had a troop of horfe raifed for him for that fervice ; but as many other of thofe forces were, fo his troop was likewife difpofed into that army, and he was now Major to Sir William Waller, he) with his whole troop advanced from the grofs of their horfe, and difcharging all their piftols on the ground, within little more than carabine fhot of his own body, prefented himfelf and his troop to Prince Rupert, and immediately with his Highnefs charged the enemy. " Whether this fudden accident, as it might very well, and the not knowing how many more were of the fame mind, each man looking upon his companion with the fame apprehen- fion as upon the enemy, or whether the terror of Prince Rupert, and the King's horfe, or all 1 Pamphlet, entitled, "Six Matters Worthy of Note.*' London, 4to, 1642, in Bodleian Lib. 2 Clarendon, iii. 470. 3 Clarendon, iii. 277. Sir Faitliful Fort ef cue. 187 together, with their own evil conferences, wrought upon them, I know not, but that whole wing having unfkilfully difcharged their carabines and piftols into the air, wheeled about, the King's horfe charging in the flank and rear, and having thus abfolutely routed them, purfued them flying, and had the execution of them above two miles." This exploit of Sir Faithful and his troopers muft be confidered a very gallant and hazardous one, and their abhorrence of the pofition into which they had been forced by a grofs breach of faith on the part of the leaders of the Parliament muft have been very ftrong to impel them to face the rifle which they ran of being attacked, as well by thofe whom they were leaving, as by thofe whom they were anxious to join. We read that Sir Faithful, 1 "deteftingthe force put upon him in that fervice, was refolved to recover his freedom by quitting that army the firfl: opportunity that offered ;" and that at the beginning of the fight he had contrived to fend his cornet, 2 (who seems to have been his own fon Thomas '), to announce his intention to Prince Rupert ; but the prince's fubordinatcs Killigrew and Byron, were not aware of it ; and fo, fays Clarendon, 1 " they had not as good fortune as they deferved ; for by the negligence of not throwing away their orange-tawney fcarfs, which they all wore as the Earl of F.flex's colours, and being immediately engaged in the charge, many of them, not fewer than feventeen or eighteen, were fuddenly killed by thofe to whom they had joined themfelves." This was a large proportion of the whole number of fixty, of which the troop confifted. 3 Fortefcue was foon appointed a lieutenant-colonel of the 10th regiment. 6 He remained with the army, and was with the King at Oxford, and in the operations againft the Parlia- mentarians, which were carried on from that city, as head-quarters, during the four next years, until Charles gave himfelf up to his victorious enemies. 7 The two following papers refer to this period. The high terms in which the King refers to Sir Faithful are worthy of remark. Charles R. Right trufty and entirely beloved Coufin and Councellor Wee grecte you well. Whereas by the humble peticon of S'. Faithful Fortefcue kn' (a perfon and officer in Our Army here whofe merites are in Angular eftimacon w ,h Us) Wee are given to underftand that three of his Sons are lately dead in Our Service in Ireland, His eldeft Chichefter Fortefcue at 1 Lodge, Peerage of Ireland, v. 356. 2 May, Hiftory of the Parliament, book 3, chap. i. 3 See Lift of Forces for Irifh Expedition, by Peacock. 1 Clarendon, iii. 281. 5 Army Lift of Cavaliers and Roundheads, pp. 44, 53, a. 11. 1642. 6 Ibid., p. 15; and p. 27, where he is alfo, curiouily, (bund ftill in the Parliamentarian lift as Lieut. -Col. of the Earl of Peterborough's regiment. 7 Carte MS. v. fol. 185, and fol. 212. 1 83 Family of Dromijkin^ etc. Drogheda, being Captain of Foote of the old Eftablifhment and Serieant Maior of the Lord-Vifcount Moore's Regiment : His fecond foune flayne by the Rebels there, And a third dying whileft he was in Service in that Our Army. Forafmuch therefore as the faid S r . Faithfull Fortefcue hath yet another Sonne left, (being now his Eldeft, by name Thomas Fortefcue, bredd a Sould r . in the Low Countries, where he was his Colonels officer, and from thence came to ferve Vs here as he hath done Captain of a Troope of Horfe vnder the Lord Herbert with great fatisfaccon and approbacon of Vs) whom he is defirous to prefer to the faid Comands of his eldeft Son Chichefter deceafed in that Our Kingdom : Wee are therefore gracioufly pleafed, in tender confideracon of the premirTes, & for the better encouragement both of the Father and the Son, whom Wee defire to cherifh for their eminent loyall Affeccons to Vs and to our Service, to recomend to you the faid Captain Thomas Fortefcue to be inftantly vpon receipt of thefe Our Letters admitted and confirmed in the places and charges of his faid Brother Chichefter deceafed. To w ch Wee doubt not but Our Coufin the Lo : Vifc 1 . Moore as well as yo r felf, wilbe readily confenting ; AfTureing you Wee fhalbe therew th exceedingly fatisfyd. And foe Wee bid you hartily farewell. Given under Our Signet at Our Court at Oxford the 25 th day of May in the Nineteenth yeare of our Reigne. a.d. 1643. By his Ma ties . Comaund Edw: Nicholas. Lo. Marq. Ormond. Addrefs : — " To our right trufty and entirely beloved Coufin and Councellor James Marques Ormond Lieuten'. grail, of Our Army in Our Kingdom of Ireland." Addrejfed:—" To the right ho ble the Lord Marquis of Ormond." My Lord, After the writing of my other ire to yo r Lo p . I heard how the Lord of Lefter had difpofed of my formes Company to S r . Richard Grenvill, of w ch I told the King, And that I thought he would fend him a Comimon for it by S r . Robert Hanna, who had then newly kill the kings hand to be gon, whereupon he comanded me to cale S r . Robt : Hanna to him, whome he prefently fent to the Lord of Lefter to let him know how he had giuen the Company to my fonne, what anfwere he gave, and what doeings there hath been aboute it, S r . Robt. Hanna will informe yo r Lo' s . And that it is beleeued by the King, Prince Rupert, my Lord Generall and others that yo r Lo p . will fpeed his Ma ties . warr\ before the Lord of BRIT.MUS SLOANE MS o"24-7F<>;jg Banner of Sir Faithful Fortcscuc as Colonel of a Regiment of Fool Ccirca) A D. 1643. Sir Faithful Forte/cue. 189 Lefters, yo r Lo p . beft knows what to doe in the matter, this I thought fitt to let you vnder- ftand, And foe humbly take leave, Yo r lo ps . moft humble fervant Ffayth : Ffortescue. Oxford, 1° June 43. A few particulars of Fortefcue's regiment are taken from " Notes of the King's Army, Garrifons, etc. etc. 1643-44, by R. Symonds," preferved in the Harleian Collection. 1 Colonel — Sir Faithfull Fortefcue. Lieut. Col. — Sir Francis Chockke, Com. Berks. Cornet — M'. Jenkenfon. Serjeant-Major — Henry Coker, Com. Dors'. I st Cap 1 . — Thomas Percivall, Com. Som'fett. 2 nd Cap'. — John Yerbury of Trowbridge, Com. Wilts. 3 d Cap'. — Henry Baynton, 2 nd fon to Sir Edward Baynton. Thefe now in being May 23 d 1644. There were at firft in this Reg'. 10 colours flying; now in all — 200. Sir Faithful was again in Ireland in September, 1646." Upon the imprifonment of the King, in 1647, the Marquis of Ormonde, the lord-lieutenant, and other leading royalifts in Ireland, were compelled to decide whether they would join the Roman Catholic leader of the {till unfuppreffed rebellion, or the Parliamentarians. Their attachment to the Proteftant faith decided them in favour of the latter; and articles were agreed upon under which Ormonde handed over to the Parliament the garrifon of Dublin. Among the conditions was one in favour of Sir Faithful, fecuring him from the effects of the refentment of the Roundheads, which he had incurred by his efcape from them at Kdgehill, or, as they termed it, his defertion. He feems, however, to have had doubts of its efficacy ; for Ormonde had hardly left Dublin, on the 28th of July, 1647, when he betook himfelf to the Ifle of Man "to avoid offenfive foldiers, and to live quiet and cheap." But after a time, paffing over to Wales, he was put under rettraint by the Parliamentary commander at Beaumaris, in November following. This officer, under orders from his fuperior, fent him a prifoner to Caernarvon Cattle, where he was kept, notwithstanding the earned remonftrances of Lord Ormonde, for nine months, and then, by fpecial order of the Houfe of Commons, dated the 2nd of Auguft, 1648, he was transferred to the cuftody of the governor of Denbigh Caftle, who was directed by a warrant from the Speaker to keep him prifoner there. 1 Harl. MS. 986, fol. 88. ' 2 Sec Lord Lambert's Letter to the Lord Lieutenant, September b, 1646, in Appendix. 190 Family of Dromijkin, etc. The letters which pafTed between Sir Faithful, Lord Ormonde, and General Fairfax are here fubjoined. Letter indorjed: — " S r Faithfull Fortefcue, dated the 30 th of November 1647." Addrejfed : — " To my Lord Marques of Ormond, My moft ho ble . Lord, At London." My most ho ble . Lord, W th in few dayes after yo r Lops, departure from Dublin I (to avoyd offenceiue fouldiers, & to live quiet & cheape) went to the He of Man, And being weary of that barren place, & defirous to be in England, underftanding that all men included in yo r Lops, condicons w th the Parliam'. paft in England & Wales w th out interruption, I came hether to Beaumorris upon Satterday lafte, w th intent to ftay heere untill I could have fome money from Dublin & then wayte on yo r Lop. at London ; Beleeving the Articles paft toyo r Lop. from the Parliam'. to be (upon fuch high ingagements of honor) fecurity and warrant fufficient to Let me pafs through England & Wales. But one Capt. Simpkins (who comands heere) finding my pafs expird, And not willing to underftand thofe Articles to be of force, hath put me vnder reftraynt, untill he know from Generall Mittin (who is now at London) how to difpofe of me, I humbly befeech yo r Lop. that as foone as poflible (leaft the mifchiefe wherew lh I am threatned mould happen) you wilbe pleafed to giue me yo r favour in healping to free me of this danger & trouble, ether by way of Parliam'. or warrant from S r . Thomas Fairfax, who I beleeve will not denie it yo r Lop. having granted it to S r . Arthur Afton who hath ben much a greater offender, This (my Lord) is the humble fuite of Yo r Lops, moft humble fervant Ffayth: Ffortescue. Capt. Simpkins hath written to Generall Mittin of me, who I feare will fend order agaynft me, if it be not timely ftopt. Beau Morris 30 Nov. 47. 1 Letter indorjed : — " A Coppy of the letter to Generall Fairfax, Dated the 13 th of Dec. 1647, concearning S r . Faithfull Fortefcue." 1 Carte MS. xxi. fol. 328. Sir Faithful Fortefcue. 191 S R . I underftand by a letter which I lately received from S r . Faithfull Fortefcue that he is reftrained at Beaumaris by one Capt n . Simpkins an officer under the cofnand of Generall Mittin uppon pretence that the pafs graunted unto him by the Comiffioners of Parliam'. in purfuance of the Articles agreed on betweene them & mee is expired, to avoid this objection I mall only mention to vo r Ex' cic . that in vertue of my conditions (wherein he is comprifed) he may live in any part of England, Ireland, or the Dominion of Wales under the protection of the Parliam 1 . and their forces, And therefore (haueing already had experience of yo r juftice in a Cafe not unlike to this) I am incouraged to defire you to ifTue fuch orders for his enlargement as you mail adiudge fitt, as likewife to graunt him yo r protection purfuant to the faid Articles as you haue been pleafed to doe for others, in doeing whereof you mall add much to the obleegem ts . of S r . Yo r Exc'". mod humble ferv'. Ormonde. London this 13 ,h Dec. 1647. 1 Letter indorfed : — " M r . Rumworth's concearning S'. Faithful Fortefcue." Addrejfed : — " For Richard Lane F.fq rc . Secretary to the mod ho blc . the Marquefle of Ormond." S\ I received yo' Letter and prefented that of my Lord to the generall concerning S'. Faithfull Fortefcue, who expreft himfelfe verie ready and defirous to doe what in him lies to make good thofe Articles of Dublin, as hee hath already done in fome other cafes; but this of Sir Faithfull Fortefcues hapning to bee different from any other, by reafon that the Paliam'. hath taken Cognizance of his Reftraint and have giuen order for the bringing of him uppe, The Generall cannot foe imediatelie act uppon his owne aucthoritie, as before this accident hee might have done ; The Generall fatt uppe late this night with the Com", of Parliam'. concerning the bufinefTe they were fent aboute, foe that itt was nott poflible for him to returne an Anfwer himfelf unto My Lord MarquefTe as hee fully purpofed : And thcrfore I make bold to give you this brief Account of that bufinefTe, and doe only offer this to yo' Confideration ; That itt will bee moll feafonable unto the Generall to improve his intereft after S r . Faithfull bee come nearer, then foe fuddainlie after a frefh vote of Parliament, efpeciallie confidering, That this Knight is very obnoxious to moft in Parliam'. & indeed to all their partie for an action done foe unlike a Gent' in deferting his Colours uppon the ffeild at Edgehill, & running to the Enemy, which will make him have the Carta MS. xxi. fol. 329. 192 Family of Droinijkin, etc. fewer friends ; but had hee bin in Oxford or any Garrifon wee euer tooke in, if Articles had bin granted him, deferve hee never fo ill they ought to bee obferued : probably if the MarquefTe pleafe to ingage S r . Robert Kinge or M r . Onflow, if they bee heere, who was two of the Com rs . who are foe much concerned in honour to fee the Articles performed, I beleeve itt may produce a timelie and good effect ; ffor the Generalls Engagement is butt collaterall, yet hee will nott bee wanting att a fitt feafon to ferve my Lord in this particular : This I only intimate unto you : Defiring yo r pardon for this trouble ; I remayne : Y r moft humble ferv\ Jo : Rushworth. Windfor 13 0 io b,is 1647. 1 S r . I fhould have returned you an Anfwerof yo' former Lette r concerning the Horfe you intimated unto mee was fent to the Generall, but being then abfent from the Head Quarter occafioned that omiflion, indeed the Horfe is of much delight to the Generall, Hee riding him every day, and I fuppofe a due acknowledgement hath bin made of it. Letter indorjed : — " 14 Dec. 1647. A Coppy of the Letter to the lords of the Committee at Derby howfe &c. concearning S\ Faithfull Fortefcue." My Lords, I am aduei tifed by S r . Faithful Fortefcue that hee comeing into Wales in confidence that hee might fecurely foe doe by virtue of the conditions made with mee upon the furrender of Dublin to the Par mt . is notwithstanding & in manifeft breach of the fayd conditions made prifoner by at & being further informed that upon notice giuen to the hon ble . the houfe of Comons there of they were pleafed to reffer to consideration of his imprifonment and of what fhould bee done thereon to your L FS . I conceiue it my parte in behalfe of S r . Faithfull Fortefcue humbly to claim the benefit of the fecond Article agreed unto by the Com rs . thereunto Authorifed by the Par mt . wherein I humbly conceiue it is moft cleere that all Proteftants whatfoeuer of the kingdome of Ireland without exception of Perfon, place of their then abode, or paft offence againft the Par mt . other then haueing bin in the Irifh Rebellion, are to bee fecured in their Perfons, eftates, & goods, & may live quietly & fecurely under the Protection of the Par mt . & their forces, ether within England, Ireland, or Wales, & as cleere it is that S r . Faithfull Fortefcue for his long and neare relations to & in that Kingdome may as properly bee efteemed a Proteftant of Ireland as any man whatfoeuer ; All w s . humble fervant Ormonde. London this 14 th of Dec. 1647. 1 This is the order referred to in one of the foregoing letters : — Commons Journals, December 13, 1647. 2 " Ordered. That Colonel Mytton be required to fecure Sir Faithfull Fortefcue until the Houfe take further order, and that it be in the meantime referred to the Committee for the affairs of Ireland at Derby Houfe to confider of the articles made with the Lord Ormonde upon rendition of Dublyn, and to ftate how far Sir Faithfull Fortefcue is concerned in thofe articles." This fecond order mows that Ormonde's remonftrance was not fuccefsful. Commons Journals, Augujl 1, 1648.* " Ordered. That Sir Faithfull Fortefcue be removed from Carnarvon Caftle to Denbigh Caftle, and be kept Prifoncr there, and that M\ Speaker do grant his warrant to Colonel Mafon the Governor of Carnarvon to deliver over Sir Faithfull Fortefcue to the Governor of Denbigh Caftle ; and that M r . Speaker do alfo grant his warrant to the Governor of Denbigh Caftle to fecure Sir Faithfull Fortefcue, and to keep him a Prifoncr there." The Parliament was not at that time to be prevailed upon to fet him at liberty. We do not, however, know how long his confinement lafted, not hearing of him again until he is reported as one of thofe who followed Prince Charles, now King Charles II., to Scotland ) and who were with him and his army at Stirling in April, 165 1. The lift in full is here given : — " The ftrangers that followit and dependit on the King at this tyme fa fer as I could fie and tak notice, ar thefe— viz. Duke Buckinghame, the Erie of Claveland, the Erie of Sant Paull (Frenchman), Lord Wilmot, Lord Witheringtoun, Lord Wentworth, Mr. O'Neill (Yrifcheman), Mr. Fanfchaw Clerk of Counfell, Mr. Jackfoun Gentleman of the privie chalmer, Sir William Blackftoun, Sir Oratio Cary, Sir Faithfull Fafkie, Mr. Layne, Mr. Harden and his Brother, Colonel Graves, Capitaine Titus, Mr. Powlie, Mr. Bray, Generall 1 Carte MS. xxi. f'ol. 332. 2 Vol. v. p. 280. 3 Vol. v. p. 657. i 9 4 Family of Dromijkin, etc. Major Maffie, Mr. Windome, Mr. Bunfche, Sir Timothie Fatherftoun, Mr. Smith, Major Galzairt." 1 He accompanied Charles from Scotland, on his march to the fouth to ftrike a blow for the Englifh crown, and was prefent in the great and decifive battle of Worcefter, fought on the 3rd of September, 165 1, — Cromwell's "Crowning Mercy," and the deathblow to the hopes of the King and his friends. I may here fay that I cannot find any trace of evidence to fupport the ftatement of Lodge, who does not give his authority for it, that Sir Faithful accepted a regiment from Cromwell for the reduction of Ireland, which he led to Worcefter to fight for the King. The miftake may have arifen from a confufion between Colonel Richard Fortefcue the Parliamentarian officer, and Colonel Sir Faithful Fortefcue. He, after this final defeat of his party, fled with Charles to the Continent, remaining, firft in France and afterwards in Flanders, until the Reftoration in May, 1660. We have no mention of him while abroad, but we know that his eftates in the north of Ireland were over-run by the rebels, and that he had, under the Parliament, loft all his appointments in the army; and, confequently, that now in his old age — nearly eighty years — he muft have been in ftraitened circumftances. The King did not forget his father's old fervant; he at once reftored him to the governorfhip or conftable's place at Carrickfergus, which he allowed him to refign a few months later in favour of his fon Sir Thomas, with the title of Governor inftead of Con- ftable conferred on the latter. The patent reciting that this favour was granted " in con- federation of the eminent fervices done Our Royal Father and Us by our faid trufty and well-beloved fervant, Sir Faithfull Fortefcue." 2 I here give the warrant and King's letter for his reftoration: — Sir Faithfull Fortescue reftored to be Conftable of Knockfergus, 11 Aug. 1660. Charles R. Whereas our Royall Grandfather did by his Lres Patents grant to our trufty and well beloued S r . ffaithfull ffbrtefcue k m . the Office of Conftable of Our Caftle of Knockefergus in Our kingdome of Ireland, and that by reafon of the troubles and fad diftraccons of the late Times the faid office was difpofed of by our Royall fTather of blefied memory to other hands. Now (out of hopes of future fettlement and a defire that all things may returne to their wonted Order and Condicon) Our Will and pleafure is that the faid S r . ffaithfull ffbrtefcue be reftored to the faid Office of Conftable of Our Caftle of Knockfergus in Ire- land, and that he enjoy all rights priviledges profits comodities and advantages therevnto 1 Nichols' Diary, 1650-1667, printed by the Bannatyne Club, 1836, p. 52. 2 See the Patent of October 14th, 1661, to Sir Thomas Fortefcue, in Appendix. / Autograph Leller from Sir Faithful Fortesrue to IC fiorlolphin , Circa 1665 In Kibhc Hecord Office Sir Faithful Forte/cue. l 95 belonging in as full and ample manner as he the faid S r . ffaithfull ffortefcue or any pfon formerly hath held and enioyed the fame And for foe doing this fhall be your Warrant. Given at Our Court at Whitehall this 21 day of Auguft in the Twelfe yeere of Our Reigne. To Our right trufty and right entirely beloved Coufin and Councell or George Duke of Albemarle, Our Lieutenant Generall, And To Our right trufty and well beloued Councello r John Lord Roberts of Truro Lord Deputy of Ireland. And to our Lieu'. Deputy, Juftice, Juftices, or other cheife Governo' or Governor", Chancello', Keeper, or Com", for y e greate Seale of that Our King- dome, And to all other Our Officers there whom it may concerne. By his Ma"". Comand, Edw. Nicholas. S r . ffaithfull ffortefcue.' Indorjed : — "21 th of Aug. 60. The king's warr 1 . con- cerning S r . ffaithfull ffortefcue." Indorjed: — "Duke of Albemarle his Grace to y' LL d \ Juftices Dat. 18 Dec'. 1660. In behalfe of S'. Faithfull Fortefcue to be Conftable of y' Caftle of Knockfergus." My Lords, I fend yo r Lps. heere inclofed his Maj"". warrant fignifying his Royall will and pleafure that S'. ffaithfull ffortefcue bee reftoared to the office of Conftable of his Ma ts . Caftel of Knockfergus in Ireland as is more fully therein expreffed, And I defire yo' Lps. to derive vnto the faid S r . ffaithfull ffortefcue the full benefit of his Maj 1 " 5 . gracious intentions to him therein, I remaine Yo' Lps. very affeclionat frend and ferv 1 . Albemarle. Cock 1 18 Decembr. 1660.' 2 Addrefs on back : — "To the right ho blc the Lords Juftices of the kingdome of Ireland thefe." Indorjed .— " ■ S' '. Faithfull Fortefcue, Conftable of Knockfergus Caftle. Kings tre for it dated 8 Feb. 1661." 1 Carte MS. xli. fol. 29. 2 Carte MS. ill fol. 29, 227, 306. 196 Family of Dromijkin, etc. Charles R. Right Trufty and wellbeloved Counfellor, and R'. Trufty and wellbeloved Coufins and Counfellors, Wee Greet you well. Whereas Our Trufty and wellbeloved fervant Sir Faithfull Fortefcue Kn\ for no other caufe but his loyalty & good affection to Our Royall Father of bleffed memorie, & to vs, hath been for many yeares laft paft difpoffeffed of his Office of Conftable of Our Caftle of Knockfergus in Our kingdome of Ireland, Vpon his humble Peticon prefented to Vs for reftoring him to his faid office, Wee have thought good, & do hereby require you forthwith after the receipt of thefe Our Letters to give order for re-eftabliftiing him in his faid office according to the expreffe words of his Letters Patents from Our Royall grandfather. For which this ftiall be your Warrant. Given at our Court at Whitehall the 8 th day of February 1661 in the thirteenth yeare of Our Reigne. To Our R*. Trufty and Wellbeloved Counfellor Sir Maurice Euftace Kn l . Chancellor of Our Kingdome of Ireland, By his Ma ties comand and to Our K\ Trufty & well beloued Coufins and Counfellors Roger Earl of Will. Morice. Orrery and Charles Earle of Mountrath, Juftices of Our faid Kingdome. He was at once named a gentleman of the Privy Chamber, 1 which office he held until his death, remaining with the Court. The gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, who were firft appointed by King Henry VIII. were expedited to attend the Court in its diverfions, pro- greffes, &c. &c, at their own expenfe, with no other view than the honour of the office and being in the way of preferment. He limited their number to forty-eight, and gave them the title of Honourable. We find documents lhowing that the King gave Sir Faithful alfo fome finecure appointments, 2 and on one occafion, as here ftiown, a grant of one hundred pounds to relieve his wants. Order for a warrant to fay to Sir Faithful Fortefcue 100/. as a free gift. Right Trufty E. Reflecting gracioufly on the many good Services hertofore done to our Royal Father and Our Selfe during the late rebellion, by our trufthy and well beloved S r . Faithfull Fortefcue Knight, We canot but be moved with a Princely Senfe of his preffing wants and contribute what the prefent ftate of our Owne affaires will fuffer towards his reliefe and eafe, and therefore We have thought fitt herby to fignify Our Royall pleafure to you and accordingly our will and pleafure is that you forthwith give effectuall Order for 1 See the Patent of October 14th, 1661, to Sir Thomas Fortefcue, in Appendix. 2 One of them was that of Water-BailnT and Searcher of Rivers in England. See Appendix. Sir Faithful Forte/cue. l 97 the paying to him the faid S\ Faithfull Fortefcue, or his Aflignes the fume of one hundred pounds, out of fuch monyes as are remaineing in the Receipt of Our Exchequer, as of Our free guift and Royall bounty. For which, &c. Given ye November 16 th 1664. By his Majefties command. H. B. 1 He ftayed with the King until the frightful vifitation of the plague in 1665 drove all who could leave it away from London, and then betook himfelf to the Ifle of Wight, where he occupied the Manor Houfe of Bowcombe, one mile from Carifbrooke. Here he fell ill ; and after a long illness, during which his friend and connection, Colonel Walter Slingfby, the Deputy Governor of the Ifland, frequently vifited him, died there between the 24th and 28th of May, 1666; clofing a long and eventful life at the age of more than eighty-five years. CAIUSltllOOKF. CHURCH, ISLF. OF WIGHT. He was buried, either in the church or in the graveyard of Carifbrooke, on the 29th ot that month. On the Regiftry of that parifh is the following entry : — " 1666. May. Buried 29 day. Sir Faithful Fortefcue, Knight." Soon after the two hundredth anniverfary of this event, i. e. on the 13th of July, 1866, I vifited the church, and after copying the above lines from the Regifter, proceeded up the valley to Bowcombe, to vifit the old Manor Houfe, which ftill exifts, being now a farm-houfe on Sir John Simeon's eftate. The Vicar, the Rev. E. Boucher James, has fince had the kind- nefs to caufe a clofe fearch to be made both in the church and churchyard for any flab with Sir Faithful's name, but without fuccefs. From Record Office. 198 Family of Dromifkin^ etc. I have caufed a brafs tablet to be affixed to the wall on the north fide of the church, with this infcription : — "In memory of Colonel Sir Faithful Fortefcue, Knight, fon of John Fortefcue, Efquire, of Buckland-Filleigh in Devon, by Sufannah, daughter of Sir John Chichefter of Raleigh. tc He was a diftinguifhed Royalift officer, and fought in feveral battles of the Great Civil War. At the Reftoration he became a gentleman of the Privy Chamber to King Charles II. " Having left London to avoid the contagion of the plague, he retired to this ifland, and foon afterwards, being then of a great age, died at the manor of Bowcombe in this parifh, and was buried within thefe precin&s on the 29th day of May, a.d. 1666. " This tablet is placed here by his eldeft male reprefentative, Thomas (Fortefcue) Lord Clermont, a.d. 1866." In the year 1878 a memorial window was put up in the church of Sir Faithful's native parifh of Buckland-Filleigh, bearing the following infcription : — " To the memory of Sir Faithful Fortefcue, Knight, fon of John Fortefcue, Efquire of Buckland-Filleigh,.and of his wife Sufannah Chichefter of Raleigh, an officer diftinguimed in the great Civil War, who died at Carifbrook in the Ifle of Wight, a.d. 1666, and was buried there, this window is dedicated by his lineal defcendants Thomas Fortefcue, Lord Clermont, and Chichefter Fortefcue, Lord Carlingford, a.d. 1878." He did not leave a will. There is in the Regiftry at Winchefter an inventory of the articles of apparel and books which he had with him at Bowcombe at his death, for which adminiftration was granted to a local creditor. 1 He married a fecond wife not later than the year 1637. She was Eleanor, daughter of Sir Marmaduke Whitechurch, Knight, and widow of John Symonds, Efquire, who left her, as a dowry, lands in Armagh and Monaghan. 2 By her he had no iftue. Sir Faithful's eldeft fon, Chichefter, entered at the Inner Temple on the 26th of April, 1633, as "Chichefter Fortefcue, Armiger, filius et haeres apparent Faithfull Fortefcue de Druminifkin in Com. Louth in regno Hibernias, Milit." 3 In 1634 he was returned to the Irifh Parliament for the borough of Charlemont ; and in 1642, a few months before his death, for Carlingford; being defcribed as " of Donough- more in the County of Downe," a portion of his father's eftate near Newry. He had a company in Sir Charles Coote's Regiment, raifed for Scotland in 1640. 4 1 See Appendix. 2 See Decrees of Chancery in Ireland, Henry VIII., 2 Armagh, No. 33, Car. i. 3 Records of Inner Temple. Geo. III., and Inq. Rot. Cone. Hib. Rep. Ultonia 4 Carte MSS. i. ff. 113-117. Sir Faithful Forte/cue. 199 He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Slingfby, of Kippax in Yorkfhire, by whom he had one child, Elizabeth, who married Sir Richard Graham of Norton Conyers, near Ripon, and was the anceftrefs of the prefent Sir Reginald Graham. She died in 1705, and was buried in the parifh church of Warth, June 25, 1725. Her portrait was at Norton Conyers until the removal of the pictures in 1864, upon the fale of the manfion and eftate, and the arms of Graham impaling Fortefcue are ftill on a fhield over the entrance door there. 1 Chichefter Fortefcue is ftyled Sir Chichefter in Burke's account of the Graham family ; he had the rank of a colonel in the army, but when fent in 164.1 2 to aflift in the defence of Drogheda, under Tichbourne, he only commanded a company of foot " on the old eftablifh- ment," ! and was fergeant-major of his uncle Vifcount Moore's regiment. He took an active part in the defence, and died during the fiege in 1642. He "raifed his company of 100 men for the fervice of his own proper charge." 4 Four years later his widow petitions the Houfe of Lords for her hulband's arrears. She re-married to John Villiers, Vifcount Purbeck, brother of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. Her burial, in 1695, is thus regiftered at Warth : — " January 23, 1 695." " Norton. — The Right Honble. Lady Elizabeth Vifcountefs of Pourbeck, buried in linnen, but information of it made to Sir Edward Blackett." There was a law then exifting intended to encourage the woollen manufacture, which ordered that dead bodies fhould be fhrouded in woollen cloths ; a magiftrate's licence was required to allow a linen fhroud. Sir Faithful's fecond fon, John, was killed by the rebels in Ireland in 1642. ' He had a captain's commifhon in the army intended for Scotland in 1640. He died unmarried. The third fon was Sir Thomas, who fucceeded to his father's eftates. The other fons were Roger, Garret, and William. The daughters were Lettice, married to Sir Thomas Meredith, Knight ; Eleanor, married firft, to Thomas Burnet, Efquire, who was flain in the fervice of King Charles [., and fecondly, to Colonel Brent Moore, of the family of Bcneden, or Moor Place in Kent, an officer in high employments; Mary, Elizabeth, and Alice. The other children of Sir Faithful died young. 1 Letter f rom Mr. John R. Walbran of Fall-Croft, Kipon, Nov. 23* 1865. '° Mr. R. Sim- - Hiflory of Irifh Rebellion traced to the Grand Eruption, 1743, p. 44. 3 Letter of Charles I. of May 25, 1643, granting Chichefter Fortefcue's commiflion to his brother Thomas. 4 Lords' Journals, vol. viii. p. 515, Oclober 9, 164b. s Carte MS. i. fT. 113-117. 200 Family of Dromijkin^ etc. Sir Thomas Fortescue. Sir Thomas Fortefcue, the eldeft furviving fon of Sir Faithful, fucceeded to his father's eftates, not, however, at once, or as a matter of courfe ; for his father dying without a will, the property went to Vifcountefs Purbeck and Lady Graham, his elder brother's widow and daughter. Sir Thomas fays, " that he purchafed his eftate from Lady Purbeck, and enjoys nothing in right or by vertue of any fettlement made by his father or elder brother." 1 The family eftates thus narrowly efcaped alienation from the Fortefcues by paffing, through Lady Graham, to the Grahams of Norton Conyers. He was born about the year 1620, and at an early age ferved in the army in the Low Countries, where, as his patent recites, " he was bredd a fouldier, and was his colonel's officer." He then returned to England, and became " Captaine of a troop of horfe under the Lord Herbert, with great fatisfaction and approba- tion " of Charles L, who had already, when he was twenty-two years old, given him, at his brother Chichefter's death in 1642, the foot company which that officer had raifed at his own expenfe and led to the defence of Drogheda the previous year. 2 He was his father's cornet in the regiment which he raifed in 1642, 3 and with him joined the King's army at Edgehill, and ferved in feveral of the battles that enfued. In 1649, on the 2nd of Auguft, he was taken prifoner by the Parliamentarians, in an action fought before Dublin againft the King's troops, under the Duke of Ormonde. We learn this from a pamphlet, entitled " Letters to Councell of State, of a greate Victory againft the Earl of Ormonde and Earl of Inchiquin, before Dublin. Together with a Lift of the Prifoners." 4 " Field Officers taken. Col. C. Plunkett, Earl of Fingall. Col. R. Butler, Lord Ormonde's brother. Lt.-Col. Michael Sear], Adjutant-General. Lt.-Col. Aldworth, Lt.-Col. Staneley, Lt.-Col. Fortefcue, Lt.-Col. Jones." Lodge ftates that he was lieutenant-colonel in Prince Charles's Horfe Guards ; and he was probably prefent at the battle of Worcefter, becaufe four days after that battle, i.e. on the 6th of September, 1651, there was an order by Cromwell, " difcharging Colonel Fortefcue from reftraint, he giving a bond of 400/. and two fureties of 200/. each, that he 1 From a MS., in the handwriting of Sir Thomas's fecond fon, Captain William Fortefcue. 2 Letters Patent from Charles I. of May 25, 1643. Lord Herbert became Earl of Glamorgan, and fecond Marquis of Worcefter. See ante, p. 188. 3 See Peacock's Army Lift of Roundheads and Cavaliers, London, 1863. 4 The pamphlet with the above title was printed in London, in 4to, 11th Auguft, 1669, by Ed. Hufband ; it is in the Bodleian Library. Family of Dromijkin, etc. 201 do nothing prejudicial to the Commonwealth." He is therefore fuppofed to have been taken prifoner in that decifive action. He is next mentioned in the year 1660, as receiving a major's commiflion on the 13th of December, in the regiment of foot which Colonel John Cole commanded. 1 And in the year 166 1 he was appointed governor of Carrickfergus Caftle, in his father's place, who by a patent dated 14th of October, reciting that the permiffion was "in confideration of the eminent fervices done our Royal Father and us by our trufty and well-beloved fervant, Sir Faithful Fortefcue," 2 was allowed to refign in favour of his fon. He feems to have refided for fome years in his caftle of Carrickfergus, feveral of his letters bearing that date. The following refers to the dangers of the time : — Indor/ed :—"U.-Qo\\. Fortefcue May 1633." Sir, I receiued my Lord Dukes letter dated the 19 th of this month, I fhall according to my duty obferue his Graces commands with my vtmoft care and dilligence, and I fhall endeauor to difcouer all fuch confpiritors and giue you an account of them, wee haue heere many Rebellious harts with fmoath Tongues, profefmg great loyalty to the king, but thefe fheep {kin wolues are generally known, therfore conceaue them the Icfs dangerous. I can giue you nothing that's ftrang from thefe parts, my prayers & good wifhes fhall euer wait on you, my good Lady and all yours (Deare S r .) bee pleafed to beleeue that I am Your mod faithful 1 louer 6c obeadient feruant Twos: Fortescue. Carrickfergus the 22 of May 1663. Addrefs : — " For S r . George Lane K\ Thefe Dublin." 3 In 1663 he was knighted. In 1682 he ferved as High Sheriff for the county of Down. Sir Thomas continued to hold the governorfhip at Carrickfergus, and to command a regiment of foot, under Major-General Fairfax,' until the change of policy confequent upon 1 Sec the King's Letter in Carte Papers, vol. xli. 2 See Patent, in Appendix. 3 Carte Papers, vol. xxxii. fol. 272. In fomc of Sir Thomas Fortefcue's Letters to Sir George Lane he figns himfclf"your affectionate kinfman. - ' I have not been able to find the connection between them. Lane was one of thofe who followed Charles II. to France after the battle of VVorccfter in 1651. 4 See printed cafe of William Fortefcue for Houfe of Commons. D D 202 Family of Dromijkin, etc. the acceflion of James and his encouragement of the Roman Catholic party, when he was cafhiered from all his appointments, his fon's activity in the defence of Derry being alleged as one of the reafons for this feverity, 1 and was afterwards imprifoned in Dublin Caftle, until, with many perfons of note, he was releafed upon the defeat of James at the battle of the Boyne in 1688. He lived to the great age of ninety, dying early in the year 17 10. His will is dated the 3rd of December, 1709, and was proved on the 22nd of May, 1710. He was twice married ; firft, to Sydney, daughter of Colonel William Kingfmill, fon of Sir Francis Kingfmill, of Sidmonton, in Hampfhire, and Jane, daughter of Sir Watham St. Leger, of Ulcombe in Kent, by Urfula, daughter of George Neville, Lord Aberga- venny. The manor of Sidmonton was given to the Kingfmills by King Henry VIII. By this marriage Sir Thomas had two fons, Chichefter and William. He married, fecondly, Elizabeth, 2 daughter of Sir Ferdinando Cary, grandfon of the firft Lord Hunfdon, by whom he had no ifTue. Chichefter Fortefcue, the eldeft fon of Sir Thomas, died before his father. He was colonel of a regiment of foot, and was accounted one of the beft fwordfmen of his time. He refided, during the reign of King James II., on his father's eftate at Donoughmore, in Down, 3 until difturbed by the troubles which marked its clofe. In the fpring of 1689, James's Irifh foldiers having come in force from Newry to difperfe the Proteftant inhabi- tants, all who were able fled the country ; Colonel Fortefcue's wife and three children being fent for fafety to the Ifle of Man, while he himfelf raifed, at his own charge, a troop of dragoons, and led them to the defence of Londonderry. He died there, fome time before the relief of the city, of the prevalent difeafe. 4 He married, in 168 1, Fridefwide, 5 daughter of Francis Hall, Efq., of Mount Hall, now Narrow-water, in Down, by whom he left one fon, Thomas, and four daughters ; the eldeft, Sydney, married to Thomas Bolton, of Knock, Efq., brother of Theophilus, Archbifhop of Cafhel; Lettice, married to the Rev. Thomas Tifdall, and died in 1726 ; Gertrude, married to Thomas St. Leger, Efq., of Doneraile ; 6 and Anne. Thomas Fortefcue of Dromifkin, the only fon, fucceeded to the eftates of his grandfather, 1 See MS. Statement of Captain William Fortefcue, in the author's pofleffion. 2 For information on this marriage I am indebted to the Rev. Charles J. Robinfon, of Harewood, in Here- fordfhire. His authority is the MS. copy of Segar's Baronagium, at the Herald's College. 3 Three of the townlands on this property, viz., Maddydrumbreeft, Moneymore, and Aughintobber, were, about feventy years ago, fold to the Corry family of Newry. 4 See Mackenzie's Siege of Derry. Walker's do. and Afh's account. 5 She died in 1708 ; fee her Will in Armagh Diftrict Regiftry. 6 Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, vi. 118, article "Vifcount Doneraile." Family of Dromijkin, etc. 203 Sir Thomas, in the counties of Down and Louth, on the death of the latter in 17 10. He married, in 1 716, Anne, eldeft daughter of John Garftin, Efq., of Braganftown, and died May 19th, 1725. His children were, Chichefter, born June 5th, 1718 ; John, born June 9th, 1 7 1 9 ; and Anne, born June 30, 1720, who died unmarried in 175 1. Chichefter, the eldeft, and heir to his father, ferved as High Sheriff of Down in 1744, and was returned to the Irifh Parliament for the borough of Trim, October 1 5th, 1 747, which he reprefented until his death. He married, April 9th, 1743, the Honourable Elizabeth Wellefley, eldeft daughter of Richard, firft Lord Mornington. She died October 10th, 1752, having had feven children, of whom two died while infants. Mr. Fortefcue was one of the one hundred and twenty- four Members of Parliament who were prefented by the country with gold medals for a popular and patriotic vote on the 17th of December, 1754, which is explained by a memorandum attached to Chichefter Fortefcue's medal, by his grandfon, the late Lord Mark Kerr, as follows: — "The Irifh Treafury, being incumbered by a furplus of ,£300,000 it was claimed for the King; this was rejected by many of the members, who infifted it ought to be applied to the benefit of Ireland. This medal was given to thofe who voted for the latter." Mr. Fortefcue and his wife are mentioned in the correfpondence of Mary Granville, whofe friends they were. She writes of them to Mrs. Dewes 1 : — u You know Mrs. Fortefcue — fhe was always a favourite of mine ; her pretty hufband was abroad, which I was forry for, as he would have been an agreeable addition to our fociety." And again, writing to the fame from Dangan, Lord Mornington's feat, June 3rd, 1752: — "At twelve the coaches were ordered, and we drove to Mr. Fortefcue's eftate, which he purchafed about four years ago, a and which joins to Lord Mornington's. He is preparing for building there, and fhowed us the fituation, which will be very fine, not two miles from hence. " Mr. Fortefcue propofes having his houfe ready to receive him by the time Mr.Wcflcy is of age and brings home a wife; but I wifh before that happens there may not a misfortune befal this family that will damp all their joys; for I think Mrs. Fortefcue is in a very dangerous way, though rather better than fhe was. She would be an infinite lofs to her young family; to her father an irreparable one; and, as far as one can judge of man's affections, a great one to her hufband, who is one of the beft fort of young men I was ever acquainted with, and, withal, perfectly polite and well bred.'' 3 "Mrs. Fortefcue died laft Tuefday fe'nnight at Lord Mornington's houfe in Dublin. 1 Letters of Mary Granville, vol. ii. 501 ; October 5th, 1748. 2 I do not believe that the intended houfe was ever built ; and the eftate was fold again at the beginning of the prefent century. 3 Letters of Mary Granville, vol. iii. 130. 204 Family of Dromijkin, etc. How I feel for all the family ! Such a hufband ! I hardly ever heard of anything fo tender and fo affectionate." 1 Mr. Fortefcue died June 16th, 1757. His fons were, firft, Thomas, who fucceeded him; Richard, born May 7th, 1749, and died in 1774; Sir Chichefter, born June 7th, 1750, was a Rear- Admiral in the Navy ; he obtained the office of Ulfter King-at-Arms in 1788, and was allowed to perform its duties by deputy ; he was returned Member of Parliament for the borough of Trim in the year 1798, through the influence of Lord Mornington, whofe clofe borough it was. The following letter on the fubjecl from Lord Mornington's brother, the Honourable Arthur Wefley, afterwards the great Duke of Wellington, who was firft coufin to Sir Chichefter, is not without intereft. It was written during the Duke's firft campaign in command of a brigade in Holland. From the Honourable Arthur Wejley to Admiral Sir Chichefter Fortefcue. Yzerdom, 2 December 20, 1794. My dear Chit, I have received your letter, and I wifh you joy of the circumftance which inter- rupted you at the clofe of it. The intelligence which you give me that Lord Headfort intends, in cafe of his father's death, to fet up Clot, for the County Meath, furprifes me much ; firft, becaufe I thought him too prudent to enter into the electioneering politicks of that county, unlefs certain of holding the helm, and next becaufe I could not conceive it poflible that a family fhould fo totally throw off one of its branches in favour of another, as it feems to be the intention of that family to do in the cafe of Robert and Clotworthy Taylor. However, I ftiall certainly profit of the intelligence, and fhall make fuch arrange- ments with Mornington when I go to London, as mail prevent us from being taken by furprife. I have now a propofal to make to you, which I beg you will take into your con- fideration,.and let me have your anfwer upon my arrival in London ; it is to bring you into Pari', for Trim. I fhould have defired it when Taylor came in, only that I then imagined a feat in Pari', was incompatible with your fituation in the Houfe of Lords ; but I am now of a contrary conviction, and I am fure I need not endeavour to perfuade you that if to bring you into Pari', can turn to your advantage, nothing will give Mornington more pleafure. In confidering this fubject, firft revolve the advantage of which it will be to you and your family fhould matters go on fmoothly ; next, the difadvantage, of which there is only a poflibility, fhould they be otherwife. Upon the firft part of the queftion I need fay nothing ; we all know that in Ireland nothing is given for nothing ; upon the fecond I muft 1 Letters of Mary Granville, iii. 165: October 20, 1752. 2 This name is indiftinct in the original. Joshua/ Reynolds & .Sectary. JtOTHIAH. nmcJiamjp [(str Esq r Family of Dromiftin, etc. 205 urge to you that, even if matters mould change, Mornington, confidering your fituation, would not poffibly defire you to rifk anything. I deliver this opinion upon the prefent view of Irifh politicks, but as circum fiances may alter, it is not one upon which I mould wim you to place a certain reliance ; but even mould Mornington defire you to go into oppofition with him, your office was given to you long ago, long before you became a Member of Pari'., and if one may judge of the future conduct of Irifh minifters by their former, your oppofition will not deprive you of it. Should my reafoning upon this ground appear falfe, you are to confider that you will always have a power to vacate your feat; and in cafe you confent to be brought in, I mall certainly ftipulate with Mornington on your part, that to vacate when he goes into oppofition is not to be confidered a fhabby proceeding. I have written long enough upon this fubject. Direct your anfwer to Meyricks, Derby Street. I intend to go to England in a few days; that is to fay, if the French remain quiet, and if the reg 1 . is relieved from the advance-port upon the river Waal, where it has been for above fix weeks. At prefent the French keep us in a perpetual ftate of alarm ; we turn out once, fometimes twice, every night. The officers and men are haraffed to death, and if we are not relieved, I believe there will be very few of the latter remaining fhortly. I have not had my clothes off my back for a long time, and generally fpend the greateft part of the night upon the bank of the river, notwithstanding which I have entirely got rid of that diforder which was near killing me at the clofe of the fummer campaign. Although the French annoy us much at night, they are very entertaining during the day time. They are perpetually chattering with our officers and foldiers, and dance the Carmagnol, &c. &c. upon the oppofite bank whenever we defire them ; but occafionally the fpectators on our fide are interrupted in the middle of the dance by a cannon ball from theirs. With bcft comp' 5 . to Lady Fortefcue, Believe me, yours moft affectionately, A. Wesley. From the Honble. Sir Arthur IVelleJley 1 to Admiral Sir Chichefter Fortefcue. Bewcflce (or Brcwtflcc, ind.rtincl), 0<5T. 30 ,h , 1S05. My dear Chit. I received from George Pomeroy your letter of the 15"' Nov', ftiortly after you had written it, but I was fo much hurried previoufly to my departure from England that I had not leifure to acknowledge and thank you for it, indeed I might perhaps at this moment urge a fimilar excufe for a further delay; but it has lain by me for fuch a length of time, and fo many years have elapfed fincc I have had any communication that I mould be The Hon. A. Wcllefley was made a Knight of the Bath September I, 1804. 206 Family of Dromijkin, etc. quite afhamed of myfelf if I did not take the firfr. moment which I could fpare to write to you. I am very much obliged to you for the care which you have taken of my goods, and as I am embarked again in a new fcene of fervice, the refult of which I cannot forefee, I mail be obliged to you if you will take care of them for fome time longer. You have not told me how you fare in the world at prefent. I hope that you took care of yourfelf, or had fomebody to take care of you at the time of the Union, which event muft have made a material alteration in the nature of your fituation. Our old friends at Trim have imagined, I fancy, that the difTolution of their Corporation ought to diffolve all connection between them and our family ; not a man of them (not even Elliott) has written me a line fince I returned to England, and I know no more about my old acquaintance in that part of the world than if they were at Japan. I expect that Lord Wellefley will have arrived in England about Chriftmas, I know that you will write to him upon his arrival ; but leaft you mould forget or omit to do fo, I men- tion that he will be much annoyed if he mould not hear from you. God blefs you, my Dear Chit. Believe me ever yours moft affectionately, Arthur Wellesley. Admiral Fcrtefcue married, in 1791, Frances Anne, third daughter of David Jones, Efquire, of Bensfort, by whom he had ifTue, Richard, Chichefter, Sydney (a daughter), Elizabeth, Frances, married, firft, to Rev. George Hamilton, fon of the Bifhop of OfTory, and, fecondly, to the Rev. George H. Reade, and has ifTue; and Harriet, married to Richard Tonfon Evanfon, Efquire. Gerald, the fourth fon, was born Nov. 15, 175 1, and died Oct. 27, 1787 ; he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Tew, Efquire, and had ifTue (1) a fon, Thomas, born 1784, who for feveral years was in important employments in India, appointed thereto by his coufin, the Marquis Wellefley, then Governor-General, and was afterwards Civil Commif- fioner at Delhi ; he married, March 19, 1859, Louifa Margaret, fecond daughter of the late Francis RufTell Eager, Efquire, and died September 7, 1 872; and (2) a daughter, Anne, married to William Richard Hopkyns Northey, Efquire, of Oving Houfe, Bucks, by whom me had one fon, Richard, and five daughters; of thefe Fanny Elizabeth married, in 1830, to George Lord Bofton ; Geraldine, in 1838, to Jofeph Pratt-Tynte, Efquire; Margaret Antoinette, in 1 8 50, to John Lord De Saumarez ; and Eulalie Emily, to James Agg Gardner, Efquire. Elizabeth, the only daughter of the above Chichefter Fortefcue and Honourable Elizabeth Wellefley (born April 3, 1745), was married, June 9, 1763, to William John Lord Newbattle, afterwards by the death of his grandfather the third Marquis of Lothian 3 6 -/r- / Family of Dromijkin^ etc. icy in 1767 Earl of Ancrum ; and finally by the death of his father the fourth Marquis in 1775, Marquis of Lothian. She died Dec. 27, 1787. We return to Thomas Fortefcue, eldeft fon of Chichefter, who died in 1757. He was born May r, 1744; ferved in the Irifh Parliament for the borough of Trim, from July 2, 1768, until his death in 1779; married, firft, in March, 1770, the Honourable Mary Pakenham, fecond daughter of the firft Lord Longford, and of Elizabeth, afterwards created Countefs of Longford; after her death, in 1775, he re-married, in 1776, Mary, daughter of Edward Nicholfon, Efquire, by Henrietta, daughter of Robert Sandford, Efquire, of Caftle- reagh (whofe grandfon was created Lord Mountfandford), and of Lady Henrietta O'Brien, daughter of the Earl of Inchiquin. By his firft wife he had Chichefter and Elizabeth, who died young, and Anna Maria, born at Touloufe in France July 6, 1773, married, January 18, 1802, to William Par- kinfon Ruxton, Efquire, of Redhoufe, Louth, member in the Irifh Parliament for the borough of Ardee until the Union, and died Auguft 25, 1865, aged ninety-two years. Mr. Ruxton died October, 1 847. By his fecond marriage he had Chichefter, who fucceeded his father, born Auguft 1 2, 1777 ; and Harriet, married, Nov. 12, 1 8 1 2, to the Right Honourable George Knox, fifth fon of the firft Vifcount Northland, and brother to the firft Earl of Ranfurly, and died, January 21, 1 8 16, having had iflue, Ifabella, married to John Tifdall, Efq. of Charlesfort, and John Chichefter, married to the Lady Louifa Darner, fifter of the third Earl of Portarlington. 1 Chichefter Fortefcue, of Dromifkin, fucceeded to the family eftates on the death of his father in 1779. He was returned to the laft of the Irifh Parliaments, for the borough of Hillfborough, immediately upon attaining his majority, in the year 1798. In the fame year he took his degree fromChrift Church, Oxford, where he had matriculated October 14, 1795, being "created" a Mafter of Arts on the 20th of June, 1798.- He was Lieutenant- Colonel of the Louth Regiment of Militia. Colonel Fortefcue married, Auguft 10, 1809, Martha Angel, daughter of Samuel Meade-Hobfon, Efquire, of Muckridge Houfe in the county of Cork, a Barrifter-at-Law, and Chairman of that county, and died November 25, 1826, having had iflue by his wife, who died November 25, 1824, two fons and three daughters, namely, Martha Ann, born Auguft II, 1810, married, December 2, 1828, to the Reverend Edward Michael Hamilton, of Brown Hall, Donegal, who died in 1861, fon of James Hamilton, Efquire, and the Honourable Helen Pakenham, daughter of the fecond 1 Mrs. Knox died at St. Gluvias, in Cornwall, where there i9 a tablet to her memory in the parifli church. 2 There is no record of his having taken his Bachelor's degree, and in explanation of this now unufual omiffion, I am informed in 1879, by the Dean of Chrift Church, that " It was the common practice at Oxford, down to times within memory, to create Noblemen and Gentlemen-Commoners, in which latter clafs Colonel Fortefcue had entered, Matters of Arts w ithout their being required to take the inferior degree." 208 Family of Dromijkin^ etc. Lord, and Mer to the fecond Earl of Longford ; by whom fhe has had three fons, Edward William, John, and Chichefter, and one daughter, Martha Angel, married to the Reverend Henry Stewart, Archdeacon of Dromore : — Thomas Lord Clermont, born March 9, 1 8 1 5 ; Mary Florinda, born Auguft 5, 181 8, died April 19, 1828 ; Chichefter Samuel Lord Car- lingford, born January 18, 1823; Harriet Angelina, born November 14, 1824, married September 5, 1854, to David Urquhart, Efquire, of Cromarty, formerly Secretary of Embaffy at Conftantinople and M.P. for Stafford, by whom fhe has iffue, David, Mary, Harriet, and Francis. Mr. Urquhart died May 17, 1877. Thomas Fortefcue, the eldeft fon of Colonel Chichefter Fortefcue, fucceeded, on the death of his father, in November, 1826, to the paternal eftates in Louth and Down. The latter, however, were, during his minority, fold to the Marquis of Downfhire. He gra- duated B.A. at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1837; was returned as a knight of the fhire for the county of Louth in July, 1840, on the refignation of Mr. Chefter, one of its repre- fentatives ; married in the fame year, on the 26th of September, in London, the Lady Louifa Grace Wandesforde Butler, third daughter of James, Marquis of Ormonde. Mr. Fortefcue having, by the death of Sir Harry James Goodricke, of Ribfton Hall, Yorkfhire, on the 21ft of Auguft, 1833, inherited the Louth and Armagh eftates of the laft Vifcount Clermont, became the reprefentative of both divisions of the branch of the Fortefcues fprung from the Buckland-Filleigh Houfe through Sir Faithful Fortefcue; and on the 1 ith of February, 1852, he obtained a revival of the Irifh Barony of Clermont, with a fpecial remainder to his brother and his heirs male; and on the 2nd of May, 1866, he was created a peer of the United Kingdom as Baron Clermont. Chichefter, fecond fon of Colonel Chichefter Fortefcue, was educated at Chrift Church, Oxford, matriculating there in the fummer term of 1841. He was chofen as a ftudent of that college in December, 1843, and at a later period was elecled by the Dean and Chapter to an Honorary Studentfhip. He took a firft clafs in clafllcs at his Degree Examination in 1844, and graduated as Bachelor of Arts in 1845. In the following year he gained the Chancellor's prize for the Englifh effay. In July, 1847, he was returned to Parliament for the County of Louth, and continued to fit for that county until the diffolution in January, 1874. He was made a Lord of the Treafury by the Earl of Aberdeen in January, 1854, was Under Secretary of State for the Colonies from June, 1857, to March, 1858, and again from June, 1 859, to November, 1 865, when he was appointed by Earl Ruffell, Chief Secretary for Ireland. He vacated that office on the refignation of the miniftry in July, 1866, and refumed it, with a feat in the Cabinet, in December, 1868, on the formation of Mr. Gladftone's government. He was fworn of the Privy Council at Windfor, in April, 1864. In the year 1870 he exchanged his office of Chief Secretary for that of Prefident of the Board of Trade, which he held until the retirement of the miniftry in February, 1874, when he was raifed to the Peerage with the title of Lord Carlingford. In 1873, on the Family of Dromijkin^ etc. 209 death of Sir Thomas Weftern, he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Eflex, being connected with that county by his marriage on the 20th of January, 1863, with Frances Countefs Waldegrave, daughter of John Braham, Efq., widow of the 7th Earl Waldegrave, and of George Granville Harcourt, Efq., of Nunenham, who polTefled eftates there. That lady died on the 5th of July, 1879, mucn regretted. In 1862 Lord Carlingford took the furname of Parkinfon before his own in compliance with the will of Mr. Parkinfon-Ruxton before mentioned, who left him his eftate in Louth. We now go back to William Fortefcue of Newragh, fecond fon of Sir Thomas Fortefcue. He was born about the year 1647, he ferved in the army from his youth, being made an enfign at the age of fifteen, and by a commimon figned by the Marquis of Ormonde, dated the 19th of June, 1680, the 32nd year of Charles II. he became a lieutenant in his father's foot company. The printed ftatement of his lofles when employed in the defence of the town of Bandon gives an account of what, no doubt, were the principal events of his life, and is here annexed, with the addrefs of the Houfe of Commons in his behalf. The Cafe of William Fortefcue, Efq. That the faid William Fortefcue, fome fhort time before the late happy Revolution in this Kingdom, purchafed a Company of Foot in the Regiment then Commanded by the now Major General Fairfax, and foon after by the Earl of Clancarty. That foon after his late Majefty King William of Glorious Memory landed in England, the faid William laid down the faid Command, and joyned in an Afl'ociation with the Proteftant Nobility and Gentry of the Province of Munjler, and Commanded that Party which feized on the Iri/h Forces, then Garrifon'd in the Town of Bandon, whereby he fecured the Town for the ufe of their late Majefties King William and Queen Mary, 'till the whole Province was Reduced by Lieutenant General Macarty, when the faid Town was forced to Surrender upon Articles to the faid Lieutenant General ; which Articles were Ratified by the late King James. * m * That notwithstanding the faid Articles and Ratification, the faid William Fortefcue was immediately after the faid Surrender, apprehended by Vertue of a Warrant from the faid King James, and committed to Cork Goal, where he Remained Eleven Months, among Condemned Malefactors, being Daily Threatned to be Hang'd, During which time he received not one Farthing towards his Subfiftance, but on the Contrary, was ftripped of what Money and Apparel he had, when he was fo Apprehended, and foon after all his Fortune was feized by Direction of the then Powers, and his Wife and Children were turned out of the faid William Fortefcue s Houfe, and Reduced to fo great Extremity of Want, that fome of his Children Perifhed in Ditches. That the faid William Fortefcue 's Father, Sir Thomas Fortefcue, was Lieutenant Colonel to the faid Major General Fairfax, and was upon the late King William's Landing, broke by E E 210 Family of Dromijkin^ etc. Exprefs Order of the faid King James ; and the faid William s Brother, Chichefter Forte/cue joyn'd the London-Derry Men, and Dyed a Lieutenant Colonel in Defence of that City. That the faid William and his Anceftors, have upon all Occafions firmly adhered to the Proteftant Religion, and the Intereft of the Crown of England; and the faid William has by means of the great Severities and Loffes he Suftain'd by Reafon thereof, been very much Re- duced in his Fortune, and never received any Compenfation for his faid Services and Sufferings. *** That the faid Town of Bandon was the firft Garrifon Town in this Kingdom, that was fecured for the late King William, and the laft that flood out againft the faid Lieutenant General Macarty, in the Province of Munfter, for which Reafon, the faid King James ufed the faid William with the utmoft Severity, in order thereby, to Deter all other Protectants, from Imitating his Example. For which reafons the faid William Forte/cue, humbly hopes the Honourable Houfe of Commons, will take his faid Services and Sufferings into their Confideration, and will Recommend him to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, as a Perfon that deferves Her Majefty 's Princely Favour, and befeech His Excellency that he will be pleafed to move Her Majefty to make fuch Provifion for the faid William Forte/cue, as Her Majefty in Her Princely Goodnefs and CompafTion fhall think fit. We Certifte, That purfuant to an AJfociation of the Proteftant Nobility, &c, of the Province of Munfter, Captain William Fortefcue laid down the Command of a Foot Company, in the Earl of Clancarty's Regiment, to take Service for their Majefties, and accordingly was by the Earl of Inchequin, &c. Pofted to Command in Chief the Inhabitants of, and about the Corporation of Bandon ; who form d us into Troops and Companies, and Atled as our Governour in Seizing the Irifli Forces Quartered here in February, 1688, under the Command of the Lord Upper-OfTory, Sir Dan. O'Neile, &c. with whom we had a sharp difpute, wherein fome were Kill'd and W mnded ; by which the Town was Secured for their Majefties Vfe, and remained under the faid Captains care, till the whole Province was Reduced by Lieutenant General Macarty : And notwithftanding the Articles perfebled to us by the faid Lieutenant General, and the late King James Ratifying the fame ; and the Receipt of 1 000/. for Enfuring them, &c. the faid King James by his own Warrant, caufed the faid Captain to be Apprehended by fome of his Officers, who Robbed him of his Mony, Apparel, &c. to a conftderable value ; moft Ignominioufly expofed him, Committing him to Cork Goal amongft Condemned Malefaclors, dayly menacing him with Death ; continued his Reftraint about Eleven Months, to our great Regret ; without any Allowance from the faid King James for his Support. Dated at Bandon the Firft. of March, 1694. Chrift. Grinnaway, Provoft. Sam. Sweete, James Jackfon, Tho. Forfter, John Nam, Tho. Sweete, Abra. Savage, Rich. Sweete. Saml. Bruce, o h CO CxJ EC w H CO O < ~ o O -O c 2 O o ? T3 c 5 ^ J BOO 2 H - ai o B CC fc. -o «" u g C o /: . s w W x P U f- K ■- -< Fo S| S *> r> f- t W 2 > <*. *5 «s O O ^ C - - £~ c . M .5 -= pB u re E 4 - X o — 0 s g«i o* = ° 5 JS - tZOO O J jtLoo oo W.2 E-d o * g u « w E- H -5 3 S 2 M «*» (J 2z < 9 c - 00 u; IS — i >° - ii 4 n to O ~ ~ ■» — a a « 5 w - — u X P H = rfOO ft.s "*1 flj ^ i!OtOx > a 8 J r — u. u; 2 ee Ui . < V) 3 ■ O s Ik — _- ■ b ^ 5 £ _ oc S3 . £ g Q o iS = gBj £ - M S 5 -c J o c < J IJ I* H ■ — i s S a c 3 x - 00 ■ J 8.5 0 *5 « -5 <3 3 fit IS ! k; Family of Dromijkin^ etc. 21 I Addrefs of the Houfe of Commons in favour of William Forte/cue, Efq., June i^rd, 1710. To his Excellency Thomas Earl of Wharton Lord Lieutenant General, and General Governor of Ireland. The humble addrefs of the Knights, Citizens and Burgefles in Parliament afiembled. May it pleafe your Excellency, Her Majefty's faithful Commons in Parliament aflembled do moft humbly inform your Excellency that William Fortefcue Efq. in the beginning of the late happy Revolution laid down the Command of a Foot Company which he then had in the fervice of the late King James, in order to enter into the fervice of their late Majefties King William and Queen Mary of glorious memory, and foon after feized on the Town of Bandon, then garrifoned with Irifh forces, which proved of great advantage to their faid late Majefties, and to the Proteftant intereft in this Kingdom. That the faid Town of Bandon continued under the faid William Fortefcue's care and government till all the other Towns in Munfter were furrendered. Then the faid Town was only furrendered upon Articles which were ratifyed by the late King James. That the faid William Fortefcue (contrary to the faid Articles) was committed to Corke Goal where he continued eleven months being continually threatened to be hanged. That the faid William Fortefcue's fortune was on that account feized and confifcated, and his Wife and children reduced to fo miferable a condition that fome of them periftied thro' Want. That the faid William Fortefcue hath not hitherto had any recompenfe made him for his faid fuffcrings and fervices. We therefore moft humbly befeech your Excellency that you will be pleafed to lay before her Majefty the cafe of the faid William F ortefcue, and to intercede with her Majefty that fhe would in consideration of the faid William F ortefcue's early and exemplary zeal for the Proteftant intereft and the late happy Revolution, and his great fervices and Sufferings, be gracioufly pleafed to make fuch provifion for him as her facred Majefty in her Princely Wifdom fhall think fit. Veneris 23 0 die Junii 17 10. "Ordered that fuch Members of this Floufe are of Her Majefty's Moft Honourable Privy Council do attend his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant with the Addrefs of this Houfe in favour of William Fortefcue Efq. and prefent the fame to His Excellency as the addrefs of this Houfe." " In confequence of the above addrefs, and upon further application from the Floufe of Commons, His prefent Majefty in the year 1733, was pleafed by his Warrant to grant a 212 Family of Dromi/kin, etc. penfion of twenty /hillings a day to the faid William Fortefcue to commence from Lady Day 1733. That the faid William dyed in June 1734, whereby the Penfion was dif- continued. That none of his family have ever received any recompenfe or fatisfaction in lieu thereof." William Fortefcue married, in 168 1, Margaret, only daughter and eventually fole heirefs of Nicholas Gernon, of Miltown, in Louth, by the Honourable Elizabeth Plunkett, daughter of Matthew, Lord Louth, and obtained in her right a confiderable eftate in that county, now pofTefTed by the prefent writer. He died in June, 1734. His children were five fons and two daughters : — Thomas, his heir ; Chichefter of Dellin, died in 1747 ; 1 Matthew, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, great grandfather of the prefent Lieut.-Col. Charles Fortefcue of Stephenftown, as the meet of the Stephenftown Pedigree will fhow ; Faithful, of Corderry, knight of the mire for the county of Louth in 1727, married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Tipping, Efquire, of Caftletown, and died in 1740, having ifTue two fons; John, in holy orders (fifth fon of Captain William Fortefcue), became rector of Hayneftown in the diocefe of Armagh, in 1738 ; married Elizabeth, eldeft daughter of Henry Bellingham, Efquire, of Caftlebellingham, and died in 1 7 8 1, leaving iflue, as will be feen in the annexed Pedigree. William Fortefcue's daughters were Alice, married to George Vaughan, Efquire, and Mary, who married John Fofter, Efquire, of Dunleer, and was grandmother to the Right Honourable John Fofter, the laft Speaker of the Irifh Houfe of Commons, created Lord Oriel. Thomas Fortefcue of Randalftown, now Clermont Park, and of Ravenfdale Park, the eldeft fon of William of Newragh, was born in the year 1682 ; was returned to Parliament for the borough of Dunleer, November 8th, 171 5, and for Dundalk, September 26th, 1727. He married Elizabeth, daughter of James Hamilton, Efq., of Tollymore Park, in Down, and fifter of the firft Earl of Clanbraffil. This gentleman added by purchafe to his Louth eftates, and formed two extenfive feats upon them. One, near Dromifkin, he named Clermont Park; and the other, in the valley of Ravenfdale, between Dundalk and Newry, where he reclaimed and planted a large tract of moorland on the range of hills that intervene between thefe towns — a diftrict which, hardly 150 years before, was thickly covered with natural wood, but fo effectually cleared during Tyrone's rebellion for the purpofe of depriving the Irifh of their fhelter, as to have become bleak and almoft tree- lefs. The traveller Arthur Young, writing in 1776, thus defcribes what the proprietor had effected : — "July 22, 1776. Took the road through Ravenfdale to Mr. Fortefcue, to whom I had a letter, but unfortunately he was abfent. Here I faw many good ftone and flate 1 Will proved April 8th, 1747, Armagh Regiftry. FAMILY OF Captain William Fortescue of Newragh, fecond fon Sir Thomas Fortescue of Dromifkin, mar. 1681 ; dii 1734; had iffue five fons. Rev. John Fortescue of Whiterath Houfe, fifth fon, Rector Heyneftown and Dromifkin, died 1781 or 1782, and was burie at Dromifkin. I (1) William,: born July 29, 1733 ; died 1816. ^Rebecca Disney, March, 1767. (2) Henry, bo June 24, 1736 died Jan. 15, 1812. Faithful- William of= Jane, dau. of Miltown-Grange, mar. Nov. 1796 ; M.P. for Monaghan to 1800; died 1824. S.P. .... Adair, Efq., of Bel- mont, Queen's Co. (1) John, in Holy^pCATHERiNE Orders, Chancel- lor and Preben- dary of Cork, died Nov. 1833. Fortescue, of Ste- phenftown. (2) James, Capt. E. I. C. Navy, died at Bombay, 1802, unmar. (3) Henry, Poft- mafter of Cork, died May, 1 806, unmar. (4) Will Iii Henry, 11 April 2, 1 h died at Clji tarf, Jan. 1866. I T I I Matthew of Dundalk, born 1780, died April, 1 8 50, unmar. Henry- Thomas, died in Ceylon, 1845, unmar. William-Henry, Civil Engineer, killed in Ceylon by a falling tree, 1850; unmar. Thomas-Knox, 1 3 years in the Royal Navy ; living 1880, unmar. Clermont-George, Civil Engineer, in Confederate Army in America, woun- ded at battle of Manaffas ; died of his wounds, 31 Aug. 1862, unmar. Elizabeth, and fix other daugh- ters. 2 Sons, died infants. William - Mark-Millar Fortescue, late 60th Rifles, born at Trichino- poly, in India, 1838; mar. 1862, the dau. of Anthony O'Reilly, Efq. of Baltrafna (who foon after died, S.P.) ; living 1880. I WHITERATH. Margaret, dau. and fole heir of Nicholas Gbrnoh Efq., of Miltown, co. Louth, by Elizabeth, dau. of Matthew, 7th Lord Louth. Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Bellingham, Efq., of Caftlebellinff- nam, about 1 729. 6 Jane Joyce, about •755. ^Emily, dau. of Thos. Knox Magee, Efq., July, 1807. (3) John of Mala-=pMiss De hide, born about '739. was at the taking of Quebec with the 24th Regi- ment; died Jan. 1831. Sallehiry, of Canada. (1) John, in the=j=MARY, dau. 1 of ... MllULIYTH, Efq. army, died June 8, 1 82 1 ; buried at Malahide. ted ia, r. Alicia.=Anthony O'Reilly, Efq., of Baltrafna, has iffue. VVilliam- Faithell, died in India, un- mar. A Daughter, living 1880. A Daughter, living 1880. ( 2) Willia.m-Faithkul,=pHonoria, dau. of an officer in the army ; wounded at Waterloo, died of his wounds ; buried at Mallow. Oliyi h, Efq , in 1798. John- =pM Charles, in the army, died 1846. 1 ARIA, dau. ot . . . Sheri- dan, Efq. I IoNOHIA, mar. . . . Gibson, Efq. r Si SAN. : Captain Li wry. Maria. born 1773, died 1857, unmar. Si'sav mar. M Di Paul of Montpellier, in France ; living 1880. Mary- A Daugh- Asm . ter, mar. died Thavers young. Blackley. un- Efq. mar. Family of Dromijkin^ etc. 213 houfes, and fome bleach greens ; and I was much pleafed to fee the inclofures creeping high up the fides of the mountains, ftony as they are. Mr. Fortefcue's fituation (at Ravenfdale Park) is very romantic, on the fide of a mountain, with fine woods hanging on every fide, with the lawn beautifully fcattered with trees fpreading into them, and a pretty river winding through the vale. Beautiful in itfelf, but trebly fo on information that before he fixed there it was all a wide wafte." 1 Thomas Fortefcue died January 23rd, 1769, 2 aged eighty-five years, and was buried at Clermont Park, in the churchyard there ; leaving iftue by his wife, who died at Bath in 1756, William Henry, afterwards Earl of Clermont, and the Right Honourable James Fortefcue; and one daughter, Margaret, who was born in 1728, and married, in 1751, Sir Arthur Brooke, Baronet. The eldeft fon, William Henry, was born on the 6th of Auguft, 1722. 3 He was returned as knight of the mire for Louth county in October, 1 745. He married, Feb- ruary 29th, 1752, Frances, eldeft daughter of General the Right Honourable John Murray, M.P. for the county of Monaghan ; and in her right enjoyed for his life the eftates of his wife's family in Monaghan, which then pafled to the Weftenras Lords RofTmore. In 1761 he was elected, at the general election, both for the county of Louth and for the town of Monaghan, for the latter of which he chofe to fit, his brother being returned for Louth in his place. In 1764 he was made one of the Poftmaftcrs General for Ireland and a Privy Councillor; and in 1768 he was made Cuftos Rotulorum of Louth county. He was alfo a Governor of the county of Monaghan. In 1768 he was again returned for Monaghan,* and alfo for Dundalk, choofing, however, to fit for the former, which he reprefented until his elevation to the Irifli peerage, May 26th, 1770, by the title of Baron Clermont. Having no fon, he obtained, in 1 776/ a patent creating him Vifcount and Baron Clermont, with a fpecial remainder to his brother, the Right Honourable James Fortefcue, of Ravenfdale Park, and his iffue male; and on January 24th, 1777, he was raifed to an earldom as Earl of Clermont. He was an original Knight of St. Patrick on the inftitution of that order in the year 1783. He lived to an advanced age, dying at Brighton on the 29th of September, 1806, a few weeks after the completion of his eighty-fourth year, and was buried at Little Creflingham, in Norfolk, the parifh in which his feat of Clermont Lodge ftands. A tablet with this infeription is in the church there : — 1 The woods were planted by the father of the proprietor vifitcd by Young. Arthur Young's Tour, vol. i. 126. 1 Infeription on tombflonc at Clermont Church. 3 Infeription on filver cup, late Honourable Mrs. Grantham's. 4 Lord Clermont received at the Union the ufual " compenfation " for a difenfranchifed borough — viz. 3,75°'- for Monaghan. Sec Cornwallis Correfpondence, iii. 323. * Date of Patent, July 23rd, 1776. 214 Family of Dromijkin^ etc. " Near this place lyeth the body of William Henry Fortefcue Vifcount Clermont, and Earl of Clermont in Ireland, who departed this life on the 29th day of September, 1806, in the 85th year of his age. " This monument is erected in obedience to his Will by his Executor William Charles Fortefcue, now Vifcount Clermont, who was in Ireland at the time of his deceafe." 1 The Regifter contains the following : — " 1806. William Henry Fortefcue. Earl of Clermont, was buried October 10th, 1806." Clermont Lodge was left by Vifcount Clermont to his nephew, Sir Harry Goodricke, and by him to the late Sir Francis Holyoake, who took the name of Goodricke, by whom it was fold. The old Earl of Clermont was a firft-rate fhot. He once, for a wager, killed, in one day, in Donaweale Wood, on Lord Farnham's eftate in Cavan, fifty brace of woodcocks, mooting with a fingle-barrelled, and of courfe flint-lock gun. Having miffed every mot before breakfaft from the exceffive kicking of the gun, he then by the advice of the late Earl of Ennifkillen, who was prefent, padded his coat-fleeve, and in a few hours killed his hundred birds. The above, with fome inaccuracies, is mentioned in Yarrell's " Britifh Birds," from Daniell. My account was given me by Lord Ennifkillen's fon, the Honour- able John Cole, M.P. Lord Clermont was alfo well known for many years in the racing world. He was the winner of the Derby with his horfe " Aimwell," in 1785, when thofe ftakes, eftablifhed in 1780, were run for the fixth time. There is a print of him on horfeback flightly cari- catured, taken on the Brighton race-courfe in 1802, when he was paft eighty. He was for fome time " the Father of the Turf." Sir Nathaniel Wraxall, in his Memoirs, gives a lively fketch of this genial old gentle- man, and of his equally popular lady, which will place them before us better than any other defcription of their characters, fayings, and doings that I have met with : 2 — " Among the perfons of high rank whom the Prince of Wales diftinguifhed by his par- ticular intimacy at this period, and in whofe fociety he paffed many of his hours, may be enumerated my friends the Earl and Countefs of Clermont. They were both in the decline of life. I have fcarcely ever known a man more fitted for a companion of kings and queens than was Lord Clermont. Nature had formed his perfon in an elegant mould, uniting 1 I vifited the church on the 8th of Auguft, 1879, and infpecled the infcription ; its laft words appear trivial when carved on a monument. The Lodge, a plain building of conliderable fize, ftands in a fmall well-timbered park between Thetford and Watton, near the latter place. The eftate includes the whole of the parifh. 2 Wraxall's Pofthumous Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 355. AA^TERABLE PEER . taken on the RACE, COURSE, BRIGHTON". [ William - Henry , Earl of Clermont.] Family of Dromifein, etc. delicacy of configuration with the utmoft bodily activity, the founded constitution, and unin- terrupted health. "When he was near fixty-five, while on a fhooting party — I think in Norfolk — the Prince of Wales, who was one of the company, had the misfortune to wound him with fmall fhot, in feveral places. Lord Clermont, however, fuffered only a fhort temporary con- finement in confequence of the accident. His royal highnefs not long afterwards made him a gentleman of the bed-chamber. His manners eafy, quiet, calm, yet lively and ingratiating, never varied. Endowed with great fuavity and equality of temper, poffefllng a very ample fortune, almoft a ftranger to bodily indifpofition, and having no iflue, male or female, he enjoyed every hour of human life. Defcended from a branch of the antient and noble family of Fortefcue, he had been fuccefllvely raifed to the Irifh dignities of a baron, vifcount, and earl. Such was his paflion for the turf, that when menaced by his father to be dis- herited if he did not quit Newmarket, he refufed; preferring rather to incur the fevereft effects of paternal indignation than to renounce his favourite amufement. His understanding was of the common order; but though his whole life had been parted in the fports of the field, or among jockeys, yet he wanted not refinement; and he ufed to fhelter himfelf under Horace's Sunt quos curriculo puherem Olympicitm, when juftifying his ardour for races. Having mixed in the higheft circles during near fifty years, both in this country and on the Continent, he had collected much original as well as curious information. " Inhabiting as Lord Clermont did, a fplendid houfe in Berkeley Square ; maintaining a table at once elegant and luxurious, choice in the felection of his wines, and in every accom- paniment of tafte or opulence ; the Prince of Wales ufed frequently to make one of the number of his guefts. He enjoyed indeed the privilege of fending at his pleafure to Lord Clermont, of commanding a dinner, and naming the perfons to be invited of both fexes : a permiflion of which his royal highnefs often availed himfelf. Notwithstanding fo clofe a connection as he maintained with the heir-apparent, yet few noblemen were better received at St. James's ; and fcarcely any were detained a longer time in convL-rfation by his Majefty, whenever he appeared at the drawing-room. Nor was he lefs acceptable at the Court of Verfailles, where he and Lady Clermont repaired almoft every year; and where they were admitted to all the parties made by the Duchefs of Polignac for the amufement of the queen. The very title of ' Clermont,' which he afTiimed when raifed to the peerage — and which might be efteemed factitious, as no fuch place I believe exifted in Ireland — aflimilated him to the blood royal of France ; a younger branch of the illuftrious line of Conde having been denominated 1 Comtes de Clermont.' Probably he was not oblivious of this fact, in his felection of the title. 1 1 I cannot fuppofe that Lord Clermont was influenced by any fuch motive. The name, common among French towns, probably ftruck him as well founding, and he changed the appellation of one of his feats in 2i6 Family of Dromifkin, etc. "When about eighty-four he breathed his laft in September, 1806, at Brighthelmftone, fcarcely a fortnight after Charles Fox expired at Chifwick. They always lived much together, efpecially during the autumnal feafon; as Fox ufually vifited Norfolk in order to enjoy the amufement of mooting among his friends. Lord Clermont poflefTed a feat in that part of the kingdom for the fame purpofe. I well remember an extraordinary bet which he made with Fox and Lord Foley, for a hundred guineas, namely, that he would find a heifer which mould eat twenty ftone of turnips in twenty-four hours. He won the wager. I faid that he breathed his laft at eighty-four ; an expreffion peculiarly fitted to exprefs the mode of his death ; for he was carried off by no fpecific difeafe, nor fufFered any pain, unlefs it was intel- lectual ; an augmenting weaknefs and extenuation, which left undiminiihed all his faculties, fenfes, and power of converfation, gently conveyed, or rather wafted him out of life. I was accuftomed very frequently to dine with him in a fmall fociety of friends, till within five or fix weeks of his deceafe ; and though then evidently wafting away, yet at table he foon became animated. Even his memory remained frefh, and he bore no refemblance to Swift's Struldbrugs." Horace Walpole writes to Lady Oflbry, Nov. 26th, 1780: — " I dined with the Lucans vefterday, after dinner Lord Clermont informed us that in the courfe of his reading he had found that Scipio firft introduced the ufe of tooth-picks from Spain. I did not know fo much ; nor that his lordfhip ever did read or know that Scipio was anybody but a race-horfe. His claflic author is probably ' Marfh upon the Gums.' " 1 Of Lady Clermont, Wraxall writes : 2 — " The Countefs of Clermont was formed, like her lord, for the atmofphere of a court. Endowed with no fuperior talents, though pofTefling a cultivated mind; her manners fub- dued, yet exempt from fervility ; with an agreeable perfon, but deftitute of beauty ; uniting confummate knowledge of the world to conftitutional ferenity of temper ; Ihe difplayed almoft every qualification calculated to retain, as well as to acquire, royal favour. The Prince of Wales profeffed and exhibited towards her a fpecies of filial regard. All his notes addrefied to her difplayed equal affection and confidence. As Lady Clermont enjoyed fo diftinguifhed a place in Marie Antoinette's efteem, it was natural that fhe fhould endeavour to transfufe into the Prince's mind feelings of attachment and refpect for the French Queen, Ireland to it, calling Reynoldflown " Clermont Park ;" and afterwards took his title from his refidence. The fact of the name of Fortefcue being made up of two French words may have fuggefted the idea of giving a French name to his eftate. 1 Walpole's Letters (Cunningham), vol. vii. p. 467. 2 Wraxall's Pofthumous Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 359. Family of Dromijkin^ etc. fimilar to thofe with which fhe was herfelf imbued. Making allowance for the difference of fexes, there feemed to be indeed no inconfiderable degree of refemblance between their difpofitions. Both were indifcreet, unguarded, and ardent devotees of pleafure. But the Duke of Orleans, irritated at her fuccefsful oppofition to the marriage of his daughter with the Count d'Artois' eldeft fon, had already preporTefTed the Prince of Wales in her dif- favour. He was accuftomed to fpeak of her on the Duke's report as a woman of licentious life, who changed her lovers according to her caprice. She, indignant at fuch imputations, which foon reached her, exprefled herfelf in terms the moft contemptuous refpecting the heir-apparent; who Ihe characterized as a voluptuary enflaved by his appetites, incapable of any energetic or elevated fentiments. "About this time Count Ferfen, then the Swedifh envoy at the Court of France, who was well known to be highly acceptable to Marie Antoinette, vifited London ; bringing letters of introduction from the Duchefs de Polignac to many perfons of diftinction here, and in particular for Lady Clermont. Defirous to mew him the utmoft attention, and to prefent him in the beft company, foon after his arrival ftie conducted him in her own carriage to Lady William Gordon's aflembly in Piccadilly, one of the moft diftinguimed in the metro- polis. She had fcarcely entered the room and made Count Ferfen known to the principal individuals of both fexes when the Prince of Wales was announced. I mail recount the fequel in Lady Clermont's own words to me, only a fhort time fubfequent to the fact. " 1 His Royal Highnefs took no notice of me on his firft arrival ; but in a few minutes afterwards, coming up to me, " Pray, Lady Clermont," faid he, * is that man whom I fee here Count Ferfen, the queen's favourite?" "The gentleman," anfwered I, "to whom your royal highnefs alludes is Count Ferfen ; but fo far from being a favourite of the queen, he has not yet been prefented at Court." M God d — m me!" exclaimed he; " you don't imagine I mean my mother ? " " Sir," I replied, M whenever you arepleafed to ufe the word ' queen' without any addition, I fhall always underftand it to mean my queen. If you fpeak of any other queen I muft entreat that you will be good enough to fay the queen of France or of Spain." The Prince made no reply ; but after having walked once or twice round Count Ferfen, returning to me, "granting to Sir John Fortefcue, Knt., the marriage of John Stonour." Leland thus mentions the double alliance between the Stonors and Fortefcues : — " Olde Fortefcue 1 Inq. P. M. Hertford, 10 Hen. VIII. 2 See Sir Adrian's Book of Accompts, in Appendix. 3 Notitiae and Pedigrees in Add. MS. 15,629 ; and Blomefield's Norfolk, vol. v. p. 348. Family of Pun/borne, etc. 247 Doughter in Henry the VII. tyme, married the Sunne and Heir of Stoner ; and after, as I hard, old Fortefcue Sunne married the Doughter and Heire of Stoneher." 1 After the death of her firft hufband, Mary Fortefcue married Anthony Fettyplace. 2 She had no iflue by John Stonor, at whofe death his fifter Anne (Lady Fortefcue) became his heir. 3 John Fortefcue, of Ponfbourne, 4 the eldeft fon of the Sir John who fucceeded to his father's eftates, was probably born not later than the year 1469 ; for he is named in a Clofe Roll, 5 referring to Middlefex and Herts, of the 1 6th February, 1490, as John Fortefcue, Armiger ; fo that he was probably at leaft of age in that year ; and the inquifition port mortem on his father fays that he was more than twenty-one years old at his father's death in 1 500. The following entries in the Books of Accounts of Henry VII. are preferved in the Britifh Mufeum : — " 1 November 1503. 0 Anthony Fettyplace, John Fortefcue, and John Cole of Devon, etc. bounden in two obligations to pay fifty marks at Candlemas next comyng, and fifty marks at Halotyde after, for a murdor. 100 Marks (folut). " 1 April 1 504. Sir Adrian Fortefcue and John Fortefcue, etc. bounden in an obligation to pay at Michelmas next coming for a fyne 20/. (fol.). " 12 June 1505. Sir Adrian Fortefcue, John Fortefcue, and Thomas Halys er bounden in three obligations to pay 20/. at Halowtyde next comyng, 20/. on Afcenfion-tyde after, and 20/. at Halotyde cum 12 moneth for the fyne of a ryott, 60/. " 1 July 151 1. 3 Hen. VIII. Henry Bourghcher Erie of EfTex and John Fortefcue of Pundefborne in the Countie of Hertford Efquire are bound by an obligation to pay m'oxiij" within two months." It does not follow from the foregoing that Fettyplace, the Fortefcues, or Cole were themfelves guilty of murder or riot ; but rather that fines were laid on their eftates, for the harbouring of malefactors by themfelves or their tenants. In June, 1512, John "of Herts" (as he is often called) was, with his brother, Sir Adrian, " among thofe who agreed to fend a certain number of men to ferve the King's grace by land;" 7 and accordingly, on the 13th of April, 15 13, thefe two brothers "are appointed to pafs the fea in the middle ward with 50 Archers, and 50 Bills, to be fhipped from Dover, or Sandwich."" Their " protection for going to the war " is dated May 6, 1513/ and they are afterwards placed " in the King's Ward." 10 1 Pat. Rolls, 10 Hen. VII. Leland's Itinerary, iv. p. 19. 3 Burke's Commoners, ii. 441. 5 Clofe Roll, 5 Hen. VII. 7 Letters and Papers, Hen. VIII., vol. i. No. 3231. 9 Ibid., 4017, 4018. 1 Vilitation of Devon, 1564. 1 [nq. P. M. 16 Hen. VII. < Brit Mus. 21,480, Hen. VII. Accounts. 8 Ibid., No. 3890 and 3980. 10 Ibid., 4307. 248 Family of Punjborne, etc. John of Herts, 1 having firft made his will, proceeded to France. The " Chronicle of Calais " records that King Henry VIII. " landed at Calais on the laft day of June, and with him landed (among others) Ser John Fofkew ; " 2 and he is in " the Lift of Noblemen 3 with their retinues that went over to Calais with the King," appearing there as attended by fifty men. He was at this time a Squire of the King's Body. 4 The object, of this expedition was to make war againft Louis XII.; and its principal events were the fiege and taking of Terouenne, the Battle of the Spurs, and the taking of Tournay, with which the campaign clofed, in O&ober of the fame year (15 13). Sir John Fortefcue returned foon to England, for he was, on the 9th of February following, a "Juftice of Goal Delivery at St. Albans." 5 We do not hear more of him until his death, which took place on the 8th of Auguft, 1517, except that he was at the King's banquet at Greenwich, on the 7th of July, 6 a month before he died. He was a married man in the year 15 10, for the will of Sir Thomas Tyrell, of Eaft Hordon, in EfTex, made in the latter year, provides " that if Sir John Fortefcue and his wief dye without yffue the reverfion of the manors of Falkborne and Moche Teye in the County of EfTex, mall remain to my fon Thomas and his heirs." 7 His wife was Philippa Spice, 8 , born in 1484, daughter and heir of Humphrey Spice, of Black Notley, in EfTex, fon of Clement Spice, of that place, by Alice Montgomery. This lady had a fifter, alfo Alice, who, as we have feen, married the elder of the two brothers Sir John, fons of Sir Richard Fortefcue, of Ponfbourne. They were daughters of Sir John Mont- gomery of Falkborne, Knight of the Bath, and were co-heirs to their brother, Sir Thomas Montgomery, born in 1434, called by Morant " one of the moft eminent men of his time, much in favour with Edward IV., who made him a Knight of the Garter and em- ployed him in embaffies and affairs of the greateft confequence." He had very large eftates in EfTex, which, upon the death, without ifTue, of his fifter, Alice Fortefcue, 9 centred in the granddaughter of his fifter, Alice Spice, that is to fay, in Philippa Spice our prefent fubject, who, Morant fays, brought to her hufband "a very great eftate," although fhe did not inherit her father's eftate of Black Notley. Through her Falkborne Hall came to her hufband, and became the principal refidence of this family. 1 Inq. Poft Mort. 10 Hen. VIII. 2 Chron. of Calais, p. 13. 3 Letters and Papers, Hen. VIII. p. 632. 4 Ibid., 4249. 6 Ibid., 4742 6 Letters and Papers, Hen. VIII. vol. ii. 3446. 7 Dodfworth MS. 22, f. 1246, (in Regiftro), Fetiplace, fol. 21, Will proved 0&. 10, 1512. 8 Morant 's EfTex, ii. 123 and 116. 9 The ftatement of Morant and others, that Alice Fortefcue was the wife of Sir John Fortefcue, of Punf- borne, and thus mother of John of Herts, is inconfiftent with the well-eftablifhed fact, that the mother of John of Herts, and the wife of Sir John of Punfborne, was Alice Boleyn. The miftake has doubtlefs arifen from the confufion caufed by two Sir Johns, brothers. Morant gives no authority for his ftatement. There is no doubt, however, but that Alice Spice and her hufband, John Fortefcue, of Herts, became poflefied of all the Mont- gomery eftates. Family of Punjborne^ etc. 24.9 Philippa, the heirefs, furvived her hufband for many years. She re-married Sir Francis Bryan, 1 and was alive in 1534. Sir John's iflue by his wife were three daughters, Anna, 2 Ethelreda, 2 and Elizabeth married to Fox ; 3 and one fon, Henry, born in 151 6, 4 who fucceeded to the eftates of his father and mother on their refpective deaths. Henry Fortefcue's paternal eftates, as enumerated in the inquifitiones poft mortem held at his acceflion to them, were : — Brokemanys, Ponnyfborne, Wynderige, Comeflowe Greene, and Bayford ; with lands at Biftiops Hatfield, Little Berkhampftead, and Hertyngfordberry in Hertfordfhire \" the manor of Trumpington, in Cambridgefhire the manor of Moore Hall, in Eftex, with advowfon of the church there, being a grant to his grandfather, Sir J. Fortefcue, on the attainder of Sir Richard Charleton. 7 Alfo lands in Bedfordfhire, not fpecified in the inquifition held at Woburn. 8 Henry Fortefcue was, like his father and grandfather, a Squire of the Body to the fovereign, 9 his miftrefs being Queen Elizabeth. 10 He was alfo a gentleman of the Privy Chamber, and ferved in Parliament for Sudbury, in the ift of Elizabeth. 11 He married, firft, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Stafford, of Bradfield, 10 by whom he had iflue, four fons and five daughters, as will be found in the Pedigree. Francis, the eldeft, fucceeded him." Of the five daughters, Dorothy, 12 married, in 1554, Anthony Brydges, third fon of John, 13 1 ft Lord Chandos." Henry Fortefcue's fecond wife was Mary, 1 '' widow of Sir Edward Darrell, and of Philip Maunfell. By her he had one fon, Dudley, 1 ' 1 married, July 25th, 1 58 i, 17 to Mary, daughter of Robert Chane, widow of Robert Strongman, and died, September 1 2th, 1604, leaving iflue a fon, Daniel, born July 24th, 1590, and two daughters. 18 Dudley Fortefcue appears by the inquifition after his death to have married a fecond wife, Martha. He was member of Parliament for Sudbury in the 35th Elizabeth, 15 92. 19 1 Morant, ii. 117. * I„ q . j>. |f, ,8th July, 18 Hen. VIII., at Hertford. 3 Arms and Ped. Devon Families. 4 Inq. P. M. 10 Hen. VIII. 6 Inq. P. M. at Hertford, 1 8th July, lo Hen. VIII. Inq. P. M. lO Hen. VIII., 6th Auguft, at Caxton, and at Royflon, July 20th. fa me year. 7 Inq. P. M., July l 2th, lo Hen. VIII. at Chelmsford. 8 Ibid., 4th Nov. at Woburn. 9 Infcription on Tomb, Falkborne Church. 10 Ped. in Add. MS. (Brit. Mus.) 5937, fol. 75- 11 Willis, Not. Pari. 12 Stemmata Illuftria, by Sir Egerton Brydges, p. 101, folio, Paris, 1825. 13 See Morant. 14 For all Henry's ifiue, fee the Pedigrees in Brit. Mus., Add. MS., 5937. 15 Morant's EfTex, ii. 117. 16 Dudley Fortefcue left to his fon Daniel feveral eftates, including the manors of Clements and of Barons, with lands in Hockley, Kochford, and Walley Hall, &c. ; as well as the manor of Brookman, in Herts. Clut- terbuck, i. 452, and Morant's EfTex. Falkborne Rcgifler. 18 Inq. P. M., 15th Feb., 2 Jas. I. at Stratford Langthorne. 18 Willis, Not. Pari. K K 250 Family of Pun/borne^ etc. Henry Fortefcue, of Falkbourn, died October 6th, 1576. His tomb, with his figure on brafs of half-life fize, is in the north fide of the chancel-floor of Falkborne church, with this infcription : — " Here lyeth the bodye of Henry Fortefcue one of the fowre Squires of the Bodye to Queene Elizabeth, Lord and Patron of Falkborne, who married Elizabeth Stafford, by whom he had Fower fons and five daughters ; and Dame Mary Darrell, by whom he had one fonne, and ended his Life the fixt of October in the year of our Lord 1576." On the other fide of the chancel are the tomb and brafs of his fecond wife, Mary Lady Darrell, who furvived until October 7th, 1598. In an Act of the 14th and 15th Henry VIII. 1 there is this provifo, " That thefe acts of authority given to the King our Sovereigne Lorde, be not hurtful to Henry Fortefcue Efquire Sonne and Heir to John Fortefcue Efquire, Sonne and heir to Sir John Fortefcue Knight nor to his heirs — nor to Sir Francis Bryan, to whom the King had granted the cuftody of the body and lande of the faid Henry, as relating to landes and tenements that were late Sir Richard Charleton's Knight." 2 Henry Fortefcue was fucceeded by his eldeft fon, Francis, born in 1546, who married Dorothea, daughter and heir of Edmund Ford, of Hartinge, in Suflex, and died July 8th, 1 588/ leaving iflue, Edmund, his fon and heir, born in 1566; Henry, and Richard. Edmund, the eldeft fon, fucceeded at Falkborne. He married, in the 26th of Elizabeth (1583-84), Ifabella, daughter of Sir Edmund Huddlefton, and had iflue by her, a fon John, born in 1585, " whofe Wardfhip and Marriage" was, in July, 1598, fold unto Sir John Fortefcue, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 4 for the fum of 30/. Edmund Fortefcue died in September, 15 96. 5 John of Falkborne, his eldeft fon, had iflue, William, born in 16 13, and other children, as the pedigree will fhow. The above William fold Falkborne Hall and Manor, about 1637, to the Bullock family, in whofe pofleflion it ftill remains (1865). The Manor of Ponfborne was alienated fooner. Clutterbuck 6 fays that it came to the Crown fome time after the 5th of Elizabeth, and was granted by her to Sir Henry Cock. Moor Hall Manor was fold in 1592 ; 7 and it would appear from Morant's Hiftory that all the Fortefcue eftates in Eflex and Herts were fold by Edmund, John, or William of Falkborne. I have not been able to trace any defcendant of the family nearer than the Salden 1 Statutes of the Realm, 10 vols. 3 Inq. P. M. 30 Eliz. and Vifit. Eflex, 1634. 5 Vifit. Eflex, 1 634, and Morant ; Falkborne Regifter. 7 Morant. 2 Morant and Clutterbuck, vol. ii. 348. 4 Court of Ward's entries, and Inq. P. M. 6 Hift. of Herts, ii. 349. Family of Punjborne^ etc. 251 branch, after the above-named William, 1 either through him or through Daniel, fon of Henry of Falkborne by his fecond wife. The family feems to have rapidly and completely difappeared from view, if not from exiftence. The old Manor Houfe of Falkborne, near Witham-Junction, has been much added to fince it came to the poflellion of the Bullock family. There is, however, at leaft one portion — a tower with rooms adjoining — -which, as the owner, Mr. Walter Bullock, was good enough to inform me when I vifited the houfe, is ufually affigned to the fifteenth century. The whole houfe is of brick. The church is in the park, a few hundred yards from the houfe — a very plain building. Its only Fortefcue relics are the two tombs with brafTes, before mentioned, reprefented in the woodcuts. Appendix to Chap. XII. Abftraft of a Compotus of the Manor of Ingham, in Norfolk, in the 22nd year of Henry VII. (a. d. 1506). The paper roll is nearly feven feet long, imperfect at the beginning. Sir John Fortefcue with whom his fteward, John Glavyn, here accounts, muft be Sir Adrian's brother ; Sir John the elder, of Punfborne, having died in 1 500. The roll appears to have belonged at one time to Peter le Neve, Norroy King at Arms, as his autograph notes are in the margin. It formed part of the Fenn collection of papers, fold by Meflrs. Puttick and Simpfon in July, 1866, when it was bought by Meflrs. Boone, who allowed thefe extracts to be taken. Endorfed: — Compotus recept' Jo. Fortefcue Ingham Man r . compot* militis, a". 22 Hen. VII. . . . recep* Jo: Fortefcue, mil. 22 Hen. VII. 1506. Summa — quarteria ordei — eclxvij quart' vij Begins, bus' dimid' denarii — xliiij/x. xiij*. jd. ob\ viz. quarterium iijj. uijd. Summa totalis recept' cum arreragiis, cxl//. ixj. ii]d. ob. Idem computat in foedo Thome Sothertone comput' receptarum ibidem hoc anno ex Eodem convencione fecum fa£ta hoc anno ...... iiij/'. computo. Et folutus Johanni Jermy armigero pro focaliaabeo cmpta, ut patet in pede compotus predicli anni precedentis ....... xiij*. iiij//. Et folutus Johanni Sparke janitori ut patet in pede dicli compotus . . . djf. Ilije. 1 In D'Ewc's Autobiography, 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1845, vol. ii. 302, there is a letter to Thomas Clopton. written by a "Dudley Fortefque," from Chilton, I lth February, apparently in 1642. This may be a fon ot Daniel or of William. The letter begins, " Coline Clopton." 252 Family of Punjborne^ etc. Several entries re- fpecling fag- gots and fuel follow. Payments for corn, re- pairingcarts, &c. follow. Here follow feveral en- tries relating to the car- riage of malt, beer, &c. Here follow entries re- Et folutus re&ori de Wraxham et aliis diverfis tenentibus ibidem pro firma xxxvj acr' prati ultra xxvjs. retent' in manus dni pro eo quod rector predi£tus eft computar 6 cum domina pro diverfis redditibus et firmis annorum precedentium Et folutus Thome Joynour de Smalburghe dccc fagotis et cc aftell focalium de Smalberghe ufque Norwich ut patet in pede compotus predi6ti * * # # # . * , # Et folutus pro piffibus falfis ultra viij/r. folut' a 0 , proximo preced' ut patet in pede compotus anni proxime precedentis . ..... Et folutus Willelmo Mader de Norwich chaundeler pro fa&ura ibidem candelarum ibidem ad diverfos vices pro xx' 1 . dies capiend' per diem iiijd. ut patet in pede compotus anni proximi precedentis ...... -X* 4t "X* "^S* Et folutus pro j equo conduit' pro iij diebus pro Thoma ferviente coquine hoc anno ut patet per billam predi£tam ...... Et folutus Johanni Taillo r pro emendacione ij lex Quernes cum fa&ura ij butters et alia ibidem hoc anno per billam predi&am ..... Et folutus cuidam molendinario pro moliacione lxxij quart' frumenti quarterium ad u)d. hoc a°. pro expenfis hofpicii a xxiij die O&obris a 0 , xiij ufque viij diem Aprilis tunc proxime fequentem ut patet per billam predi<5tam Et folutus Priori de Ingeham pro expenfis fervientis domini ibidem cum aliis diverfis expenfis et neceffariis per billam di<5ti Prioris penes dominum remanentem . Et folutus pro iiij care£tis de lez firres emptis pro focalia et pro fornacio hoc anno precii care6tae i\]d. ut patet per billam manu domini fignatam . Et folutus reclori Ecclefie San£ti Martini per decimum gardini domini apud Norwicum pro iij bus annis quolibet anno ij*. v]d. ut patet per billam predi&am ******* Et folutus Johanni Glabyn, Senefcallo curiae domini ibidem pro anno ultimo preterito ut patet per billam manu domini fubfcriptam .... ******* Et in regard' fail' diverfis hominibus pifcantibus apud Smalburgh hoc a°. per manum domini folut' ........ Et folutus pro j equo conducV pro domino Roberto capellano ad equitandum London hoc anno ......... Et folutus pro cariagio diverforum eftafur, viz. j pipe et j hogfhede vini, iij pipas, cum pifcibus et j hoggeftiede cum powder de Norwico ufque Yermouth hoc anno ......... * * * * * . * * Et folutus pro cariagio xxxviij quarteriarum brafurae de Ingeham ufque Norwicum ad hofpicium domini ibidem cujuflibet quarterii ad i]d. et xiij quarter' de Smal- burghe ufque Norwich predict' ad hofpicium predidrum et vij quarteriarum de Kerftone, ufque Norwich ad hofpicium predi&um, quarteria ad ijd. hoc anno . . ..... ******* xs. xviiji. iiij//. vjs. viijd. xijd. iij iiijd. xviijj. cixs. iijj. vij j. vjd. xiij*. iiij^. vs. xxd. iijs. \)d. ixs. viijV/. Family of Pun/borne, etc. 253 Et folutus pro viij cades de Allec' rubiis emptis et provifatis pro hofpicio domini hoc lating to the anno, precium cujuflibet cade, iij*. v]d. ..... xxviijx. making of Et folutus pro viij barellis de Allic' albis emptis pro expenfis hofpicii ejufdem domini hoc anno precium barelli, v)s. viijd. ..... liijj. iiijd. ******** Et folutus proc mit de pifcibus falfis vocatis lynges emptis pro expenfis domini hoc anno, precii ......... \xis. Et folutus pro cc pifcibus falfis vocatis faltfiftier emptis pro expenfis hofpicii predicti hoc anno precii cxxvjj. v'ujd. ...... \ii]s. uijd. Et folutus pro expenfis Thome Sothertone equitantis pro pifcibus et allec' providendis et habendis hoc a", ad diverfos vices et diverfa loca .... iij*. \xd. ******** Summa omnium allocationum, cvij//. xixr viy/. et debet xxxij//. ix*. vu]d. oh o^. De quibus Here follow allocatur ei xxij*. iiij^. pro colledt' cclxvij quarteria vij ,,u \ dimid' de diverfis tenentibus ' omt " entries .... . . . ... .. . . _ . . . of payments ibidem hoc a°. juxta ratum cujuflibet quartern, )d. Ft debet xxxj//. vijj. liijrf. ou q,. ma( j e f or &C. &C. &C. barley, which ******** complete the roll. B. Inquifition taken at Woburn in the co. of Bedford on the 4" 1 day of November 10 Henr. VIII. before the jurors &c. who fay that a certain Sir Richard Charleton K'. was feifcd of the Manor of Byworth in co. Bedford, &c. and that by a certain A£I of Parliam" dat. 1 Hen. VII. the faid Charlton was attainted, &c. &c. " Ac poftea di£tus nuper Henricus VII per literas fuas Patentes cujus datum eft apud Woburn xiij die Marcii anno regni fui primo, de gratia fua fpeciali bona et laudabilia obfcquia que dile£tus et fidelis ejufdem nuper Regis, Johannes Fortefcue tunc unus militum pro corporc fuo eidem nuper Rcgi tunc tempora impendebat indiefque ex tunc impendere non defiftebat merito contcmplatus, inter alia dedit ct conceflit eidem Johanni predidtum manerium de Byworth per nomen, &c." After which the faid S r . John Fortefcue was feifed of the faid Manor &C. and being fo feifed died at Ponnyfborne in the Co. of Herts on the 28"' day of July 1 5 Hen. VII. after whofe deceafe it defcended to John Fortefcue efq. as fon and heir of the faid S r . John, after which, in the 20"' of Apr. A". 24 of the faid King, a pardon de intrufione et tratifgrejjione &c. by Patent was granted by the name of John Fortefcue Efq. of Ponnyfborn, Co. Herts, alias J. F. of Falborne, Co. Eflex, Efq. alias J. F. of London, Efq. &c. &c. John Fortefcue Efq. died on the 8"' of Auguft, A°. 9 Hen. VIII. and Henry Fortefcue is his fon and heir male and of the age of z\ years. Funeral Certificate. TheWorfhypfull Henry Fortefcue of ft'alkborne in the Countie of Eflex Efquire departed this Worlde at the faide howfeon Saturdaie the yj"'of October 1576 And was buryed on Monday the xv ,h of 254 Family of Punjborne^ etc. the fame in the faide Churche. The faide Henry maryed to his firft Wyff Elizabeth the Dowghter of StafForde in barkfliere Efqwyer & by her had yffue ffrauncys his eldeft Son & heyr John his fecond fon George his thyrde fon & Katheryn Anne & Dorothye. And after Maryed to his fecond wyff Dame Mary Lady Darrell & by her had yffue Dudley a Son. The executor appointed by the laft will and teftamentof the faide Henry ffortefcue was the Lady Darrell his wyff. The Offycer that ferved at the faide buryall was Richard Turpyn ah Wyndfore heraulde of Armes. Sir Adrian Fortefcue. 2 55 CHAPTER XIII. The Forte/cues of Salden. HE above defignation of a fub-branch of the Puniborne family, originating with Sir Adrian, fecond fon of Sir John Fortefcue of Puniborne, has been taken from their principal feat, although it was not poffefled by Sir Adrian, but was acquired by his eldeft fon, Sir John, in addition to lands in Gloucefterfhire, and poffibly in Oxford- mire, left to him by his father. Sir Adrian Fortescue. Sir Adrian Fortefcue was born about the year 1476. 1 There is no mention of him until October, 1499, wnen ne ls referred to as already married, his wife being Anne Stonor, daughter of Sir William Stonor, of Stonor near Henley-on-Thames, in Oxfordshire, filter and afterwards heir to John Stonor, who had married, in 149 5," his filter, Mary Fortefcue. Her mother was the Lady Anne Neville, eldeft daughter of John, Marquis of Montagu, brother of Richard, Earl of Warwick, the " King-maker." She became, by the death of her brother, George, Duke of Bedford, 1 one of his co-heirs.' In 1 503, at the creation of Prince Henry, now the King's eldeft fon, as Prince of Wales, Sir Adrian was created a Knight of the Bath. 3 In the fame year he and eleven knights and gentlemen of Oxfordshire were named commiffioners for levying two aids for Henry VII.; one on the occafion of the marriage of his eldeft fon, Prince Arthur, now dead, a marriage by which the hiftory of the Reformation was fo much affected; and the other for the marriage of the King's daughtet, Margaret, to the King of Scotland, through which the Houfe of Stuart" came to the crown of England. In 1504 and 1505 he is returned, with his brother John, as fined for "a riott." 7 In 1509 and 1 5 10 he purchafed an eftate in Hants from Edmund Dudley." In 151 1 he is put into the commiruon of the peace for Oxfordshire. 11 From this and other entries, it is probable that he, foon after his marriage, refuled principally at Stonor, his wife's family feat in that county. Leland, almoft a contemporary, defcribes it in his Itinerary, 10 1 A " Liccntia ingrcdiendi " to Adrian Fortefcue and Anne his wife, dated Oc"t. l ~th, 1 499. fhows that he was then married, and (it may be aflumcd) at leaft twenty-one years old. Pat. Rolls, 15 Hen. VII. 2 Pat. Roll, IO Hen. VII. 1 Burke's Commoners, " Stonor." * Pat. Roll, O. 23 Hen. VII. • Lodge, Biog. Brit. iii. p. 2001. 6 Rolls of Parlt. vi. p. 538. 7 Hen. VII. Accounts, f. 105, 127. 8 Letters and Papers, Hen. VIII., 1212 (Calendar of), and Pat. Rolls, 24 Hen. VII. 9 Letters and Papers, Hen. VIII., 1470. 10 Leland's Itinerary, vii. 67. 256 Family of Salden. as " a three miles out of Henley. There is a fay re Parke and a warren of Connes, and fayre Woods. The Manfion Place ftandeth clymbing on an Hille, and hathe two courtes builded with Timbar, Bryke, and Flynte." About this time the young King Henry VIII. joined with Ferdinand of Spain, the Emperor Maximilian, and Leo X., to check the progrefs of Louis XII. in Italy, he having feized the Duchy of Milan, and threatened the Papal States. In accordance with the treaty Henry proceeded to collect an army for the invafion of France through Calais, and Sir Adrian was one of thofe who agreed to raife men for it. He accordingly, with his brother John, collected fifty archers and fifty bills, and was appointed to crofs the feas in " the Middeward," although they both belonged to "the King's ward" of the expedition. " The Mawdelen of Pole" was the {hip which was to carry them. It would appear, however, that the two Fortefcues remained with their own divifion, becaufe they did not go with either of the other two who had preceded them, one under the Earl of Shrewsbury, 1 and the other under Lord Herbert, and did not land in France until the end of June, 15 13, when they appear in the <£ Lift of Noblemen" who went with the King to Calais " with the number of their retinues," fifty men attending each of them. The two brothers carried their banners, with their arms thus emblazoned : — A Dejcripion of the Standards borne in the Field by Peers and Knights, in the reign of Henry VIII., from a MS. in the College of Arms, marked I. 2, compiled between the years 15 10 and 1525. Mayfter John Forte/cue. 2 Vert, A an heraldic tiger paflant Argent, maned and tufted Or, with two antique fhields Argent, each charged with the word "fort," and four mullets pierced Sable; B a fimilar fhield between two mullets ; C a fhield and three mullets as before. Motto. — Je penfe loyalement. Arms. — Quarterly, I. and IV. Azure, on a bend engrailed Argent, cottifed Or, a mullet pierced for difference ; II. and III. Argent, fretty Sable, on a chief . . . three rofes Gules. An efcocheon of pretence, Quarterly, I. and 4. Argent, on a chief dancette, Azure three martlets Or ; 2. and 3. Gules, a chevron Ermine between three fleurs de lis Argent. Syr Adryan Forte/cue. Vert, A an heraldic tiger paflant Argent, maned and tufted Or, charged on the moulders with a crefcent Sable between, in the dexter bafe and finifter chief, two antique 1 See Letters and Papers, Hen. VIII. vol. i. and Turpin's Chronicle of Calais, for thefe dates and entries. 2 This was Sir John Fortefcue " of Herts." Sir Adrian Forte/cue. 257 fhields Argent, each charged with the word "fort," and three mullets alfo Argent, charged with the crefcent as before ; B the fhield and mullet ; C the fhield and three mullets, as before. Motto. — Loyalle Penfee. Arms. — Quarterly, [. and 4. Azure, on a bend engrailed Argent, cottifed Or, a mullet Sable ; 2. and 3. Argent, fretty Sable, on a chief .... three rofes Gules ; in middle chief point a crefcent for difference. An efcocheon of pretence, Quarterly of five grand quarters, two in chief, and three in bafe ; I. Azure, two bars dancette Or, a chief Argent ; II. Quarterly, I. and 4. Gules, a faltire Argent, with a label of three points ; 2. Argent, a fefs fufilly Gules; 3. Or, an eagle difplayed Vert ; in fefs point a crefcent for difference; III. Gules, a crofs engrailed Argent ; IV. Argent, a faltire engrailed Gules ; V. Argent, on a Canton a cinquefoil. The ftiort campaign which enfued, although barren of lafting refults, was a brilliant one. The ftrong places of Terouenne and Tournay fell ; and at the " Battle of the Spurs," under the walls of the former, the French cavalry, 10,000 in number, fled in a panic before a fmall force of Englifh and Germans ; and by the end of October Henry was again in England. Sir Adrian was a Gentleman of the King's Privy Chamber, but the date of his appoint- ment is not known. In July, 15 17, he was at a royal banquet at Greenwich, of which a defcription remains among the State Papers of the period, when he was in the King's retinue, with Lord Edward Howard, Sir Edward Hungerford, Sir Walter Stonor, his own brother Sir John, and many more. 1 In 1 5 1 8 his firft wife died; "on the 14th day of June anno 10, Henry VIII. then Monday, at Stonor, my wife the Lady Anne Fortcfcue died." Such is the entry in his Book of Accounts which has come down to us. She was buried at Pyrton Church, clofe to Shirburn, where afterwards Sir Adrian lived. He does not appear to have intended that the body fliould finally reft there, for we find, in the next year, minute details of a marble tomb ordered from " the marblars of CorfF, like unto Sir Robert Southwell's tomb in the Cloifter of the Black Friars in London," to be finifhed by "the marbelars in Powles Churchyard, with pictures, writings, and armys gilt," after the rate of Sir Thomas of Parre's tomb ; and that the faid tomb was carried by water to the Priory of By (ham in Berkihire, to the church of that celebrated houfe. Here, after fcven years from her death he laid his wife among her anccftors, the Montacutes Earls of Salifbury, Richard Neville the King-maker, her grandfather's brother, and her grandfather himfelf, the Marquis of Montague. The removal took place on the " laft day of March in the 1 6th year of King Henry VIII." (1 525). 1 For the foregoing dates and facls, fee Letters and Papers, Hen. VIII. ; Chrotvcle of Calais, pp. 1 1 and 13 ; Lingard's I lift. ling. vi. chap. i. ; infcription on portrait of Sir John I 'ortcfcuc of Salden. L L 258 Family of Salden. The total coft of the tomb and ceremony of removal was 87/. fs. $d. — a large fum if it muft be multiplied by fixteen to bring it to the prefent value of money. Lady Fortefcue's remains, however, did not reft finally in their new place of depofit. The religious troubles of the Reformation foon after began, and in 1 538 the old Priory did not efcape the fate of other monafteries, and was diflblved. Upon this, which Sir Adrian calls " the rafyng of Byfham Priory," he again removed the body, fearing, perhaps, the defecration of the church where it lay, which, however, did not take place. They were taken back to the neighbourhood of Stonor, although not to Pirton, and were finally depofited in Brightwell-Baldwin Church, two or three miles diftant from it. We find from the minute details extant in the accounts that thefe ceremonies took place at night : the coffin being carried in its "hearfe" on a horfe-litter, attended by numerous torch-bearers, and followed, at the firft burial, by 656 poor perfons, who received each their penny doles, and by more than 300 others. At each church patted on the way the clergy met the corpfe with lighted tapers, chanting dirges, and then celebrating mafies in their churches. Forty-two priefts at Byfham affifted at the mafs, and at Pirton a funeral fermon was preached, for which the preacher received a prefent of io/. 1 The " months mind " was duly performed, in July, 1 5 1 8, by the devout knight, who expended ill. os. 6d. on fifteen mafies in one day at Pirton Church and Stonor Chapel, as well as at the Savoy, where he himfelf was at the time. At the two former places fifty- two priefts were engaged in the fervices. Brightwell was in the gift of Sir Adrian and of his wife, who we find prefenting to it thus : — Memorandum in the Will Book No. 152 8- 1543 at the beginning. M. Nichus Bradbrige in artibz mag r . prejentatus per probum virum Adrianium Ffortejcu et Annam uxor ejus filiam et heredem Wil m St oner mi litis defunfti ad ecclefiam parochialam de Brightwell Bawdewyn per mortem dni Johns Porter ultimi refloris ejufdem. He was not allowed to remain in undifturbed pofleflion of his late wife's inheritance. For fome years before her death, that is to fay, almoft as foon as, by her brother's death, fhe had fucceeded to the eftates of her father, her right to them was difputed by her uncle Thomas Stonor as heir male; and now, when at her death Sir Adrian 2 claimed them "by the courtefy of England for his life," and afterwards for his daughters Lady Wentworth and the Countefs of Kildare, the difpute became more bitter and violent between him and Sir Walter 1 See the accounts in Appendix. 2 Act of Award, Fortefcue and Stonor, 28 Hen. VIII. c. 36, a. d. 1 536, in Statutes of the Realm, vol. iii. p. 690. Sir Adrian Forte/cue. Stonor, fbn of Thomas before-named. His fortune was impoveriflied, and his life difturbed by many " riotts, aflaults, and affrayes" between his followers and thofe of theoppofite party, and it was not until after fixteen years of contention that the queftion was fet at reft. In the year 15 19 this entry occurs in the items of the "firft yeare's mynde " for his wife at Pirton : — " For 36 Skochyns of armys both in metall and colours, grett and large to give to dyvers Chirches in the country." Early in the year 1520 1 Sir Adrian was appointed by Henry to accompany him and the queen to France on their expedition to meet Francis I. in the Marches of Calais, at Guifnes, The following fummons mows that he was one of the knights who were efpecially to attend the queen. Among his colleagues were Sir Walter Stonor, the claimant of his eftate, and Sir William Rede his future father-in-law, with feveral befides. The gorgeous feftivities which attended this famous interview on " the Field of the Cloth of Gold " are too well known to be repeated here ; a very graphic account of them will be found in Holinfhed. Henry VIII. to Sir A. Forte/cue. 15 20. 2 Henry. Right trufty and well-beloved, we greet you well. And whereas, this year laft paffed, after conclufion taken betwixt us and our right dear brother, coufin, confederate, and ally the French King, as well for firm peace, love, and amity, as of alliance by way of marriage (God willing) to be had and made betwixt our deareft daughter the Princefs and the Dolphin of France, a perfonal meeting and interview was alfo then concluded to be had betwixt us and the faid French King ; which, upon urgent confiderations and great refpects, was by mutual confent for that year put over and deferred ; fo it is now, that the faid French King, being much defirous to fee and perfonally to fpeak with us, hath, fundry times by his ambafladors and writings, inftantly defired us to condefcend to the faid interview, offering to meet with us within our dominion, pale, and Marches of Calais ; whereas, heretofore, femblable honour of pre-eminence hath not been given by any of the French Kings to our progenitors or anteceffors ; we therefore, remembering the manifold good effects that be, in appearance, to enfue of this perfonal meeting, as well for corroboration and allured eftablifh- ment of the peace and alliance concluded betwixt us, as for the univerfal weal, tranquillity, and reftfulnefs of all Chriftendom ; taking alfo consideration to our former conventions, and the great honour offered unto us by the French King for the faid meeting within our 1 Rymer Foedera, vol. vi. part i. 182 ; and Chron. of Calais, p. 24. 2 The Letter is endorfed "To our trufty and well-beloved fervant Sir Adryan Fortefque, Knight." The two or three laft lines of the original are burnt off Cotton MS. Caligula D. vii. Art. 1 18. 260 Family of Salden. dominion, have condefcended thereunto accordingly ; the fame to be, God willing, in the month of May next enfuing. And, inafmuch as to our honour and dignity royal it appertaineth to be furnifhed with honourable perfonages, as well fpiritual as temporal, to give their attendance upon us at fo folemn an acl as this mall be, for the honour of us and this our realm, we therefore have appointed you, amongft others, to attend upon our deareft wife the queen in this voyage, willing therefore and defiring you not only to put yourfelf in arreadinefs, with the number of ten tall perfonages well and conveniently apparelled for this purpofe to pafs with you over the fea, but alfo in fuch wife to appoint yourfelf in apparel, as to your degree, the honour of us and this our realm, appertaineth. So that you, repairing unto our faid deareft wife, the queen, by the firft day of May next enfuing, may then give your attendance in her tranfporting over the sea accordingly ; afcertaining you that, albeit you be appointed to the number of ten fervants to pafs with you (as is above faid), yet, neverthelefs, inafmuch as at your arrival at Calais you fhall have no great journey requisite to occupy many horfes, you mail therefore convey with you over the fea for your own riding, and otherwife, not above the number of three horfes. Howbeit, our mind is not to reftrain you to the faid precife number of fervants and horfes for your own journeying unto our faid wife and accompanying her to the fea-fide, which thing we leave to your arbitrement ; but only afcertain you of that number of fervants and horfes. But before Fortefcue with the " ten tall perfonages " of his fuite had left England in obedience to thefe commands, he received a fecond King's Letter requiring his attendance at Canterbury to affift at the reception of the Emperor Charles V., who, anxious to prevent the meeting of the French king and Henry, announced his intention to vifit his Uncle on his voyage from Spain to the Low Countries. He landed at Dover on the twenty-fixth of May, and remained at Canterbury until the thirty-firft of that month, having failed in the immediate objecT: of his vifit, for on the fame day on which he left Sandwich for Flanders, King Henry and his Queen croffed from Dover to Calais to fulfill their engagement with Francis. 1 The letter is here given : 2 — Henry R. By the King Trufty and welbeloved we grete you wele, And whereas o r derreft broder Coufyn and good Nephieu Thempo r mynding to vifite and reaforte to his Regions and Countreys of Spayn intendith alfo for the entire love affiance and fingular affeftion that he berith and hath in and to us w' in brief tyme not onely to take this o r Realme in his way and to fee and falute us, but alfo to coTcate al his affaires w' us for knowledge of o r advice and counfail Holinfhed, vol. iii. 645. 2 Brit. Mus. Cott. MS. Vefp. C.L. fo. 299. Sir Adrian Fortefcue. in the fame, we taking regarde to the faid Empo r s gratitude in that behalf and considering the proximite and nernes of blood wherin he is to us wyved w l the auncient confederacions and amyties that alwayes heretofor hathe bene eftablimed and firmely contynued betwext the houfes of Englande Spayne and Burgoyn, be determyned not oonly to receyve the faid Empo r in mooft hono r able maner as to his dignitie and aftate imperial it appteynith, But alfo to entertayne him w' comfortable chere during his abode within o r faid Realme. And in as much as it is requifitie we fhuld be hono r ably accompanyed at that tyme w l o r lordes and nobles bothe fpuall and temporall as wel for his cherefull and princely receyving as to con- duyte him from place to place for the fame and renonie of o r faid Realme, We therefor have appointed you amongft other at that tyme to gyve yo r attendaunce upon us. Wherefor we woll and defire you not onely to put yo r felf in fuch redynes of apparail and otherwife as to yo r degre appteyneth, But alfo to order you in fuch wife that ye may be w' us at Caun- terbury the xxvij th day of Aprill next coniyng for gyving of yo r faid attendaunce upon us accordingly, Not failing to doo al excufes put aparte, As ye tender the hono r of us and this o r Realm, Yeven under o r Signet at o r mano r of New Hall the iiij th day of Aprile. M d . After y e p'paracon herefor I was comaunded to go to y e fee wnder my lorde admy- ralle wher we were and o r lordes xxi. wekes. 1 Addrejfed— To our trufty and welbeloved f'vat Sir Adriayn Fortefcue Knight. The alliance between the two monarchs fo oftentatioufly celebrated at Guines did not long continue. Both the King and his Minifter Wolsey had objects of ambition which could be forwarded only by fupporting Charles V., for Henry had claims upon the French Crown, and the Cardinal afpired to the Papacy. Henry therefore before he left the Continent repaired to Gravelines to return the vifit of the F.mperor, and there, by a fecret treaty, a marriage was arranged between the latter and the Princefs Mary, the heirefs prefumptive to the Englim throne. In 1522 England and France were again at war; and in July of that year the Earl of Surrey left the Calais Marches for Picardy with a large army ; Sir Adrian accompanying him as one of his principal officers. 2 The campaign pafTed over without a battle ; the Duke of Vendome finding his forces too weak to oppofe the Englifh, or to protect the country from their burnings and devalua- tions. They took " many towns and caftles," including Braye and MontdiJier, returning to Calais and to England in October. 1 This fentence is written in a different hand, probably that of Sir Adrian. 2 Chron. of Calais, p. 32. 262 Family of Salden. Sir Adrian's name occurs once more in connection with the French wars. He may have held his Oxfordfhire eftates under conditions of military fervice ; at all events, in 1528, he received " Letters under the King's fignet," 1 thus :— Henry R. By the King. Trufty and welbeloved we grete you wele, And forafmoche as the warres whiche longe have Contynued betwene thempo r and the Frenfhe King bee now fa quykened and w' effect po r fued on either partie, that dailly exco'fes bee made upon their frontiers, and the garnifons on booth fides largely fo r nyfhed and encreafed, in fuche wife as Rodes and other enterprifes bee dailly made by the oon and the other in greate nombres al alonges and foranempft the frontier of o r towne and rrfches of Calais, and right nere unto o r Caftell of Guyfnes, wherby no fmall damage migh enfue unto the fame o r Caftell, and femblably unto o r faid towne and m r ches, And in caas there be nat fpeciall regarde had to the furniture fuertie and defenfe therof, We therfor by deliberat advice of o r Counfaill have ordeigned and determined to fende a certain crewe of men wele elect and chofen unto o r faid towne, caftell and m r ches, the fame to bee under the leading of o r right trufty and welbiloved Counfaillo r the lord Sandes our Chamblain and Captain of o r faid Caftell of Guyfnes, there to remaigne for a feafon upon the tuicion and defenfe of the fame. To which Crewe we have appointed you to fende the nombre of x perfonnes fotemen archers and others to bee wele elect and tryed as is aforefaid, wherefor, we will and comaunde you that w l all fpede and celerite upon the receipt herof, ye prepare and putt in aredynes yo r faid nombre fufficiently harneifed and apointed for the warre, In fuche perfite haft as they maye bee at Guyldeford the iij th daye of the next moneth, there to bee viewed by the faid lord Sandes, oonles ye fhall before that tyme have from hym knowlege to the contrary, where alfo money fhalbe delyvered to fuche a perfonne as ye fhall appointe for their coftes and conduyte money, So to paffe forth under fuche captains To whome they fhalbe letted to o r faide towne and m r ches for the po r pofe before faid, Faile ye nat therfor to ufe diligence herin as o r truft is in you, Adver- tifing the faid lorde Sandes incontinently by this berer of yo r conformable mynde herin. And thefe o r fares fhalbe as well unto you, for levyeng raifing gathering muftring viewing arraying and fending of yo r faid nombre, as to them fo by you levied raifed gathered muftred viewed arrayed and fent as fufficient warraunt and difcharge, as though the fame were paffed under o r greate Seale, any act ftatute proclamacion ordennaunce or commaundement paffed to the contrary not w'hftanding. Yeven under o r Signet at o r mano r of Richemont the firft day of Aprill the xix th yere of o r reigne. Addrejfed — To o r trufty and welbeloved S r Adryan Fortefcue. 1 Chron. of Calais, 205, from Cotton MS. Fauftina, vii. p. 113. -tt^^a* <*p&^n4 -t$&t ^^^^^ z r (^^Ar^Sy- ct>m|^g|^ ^^&n^^j^hiS Autograph of Sir Adrian Fortescue from his transcript of the treatise "j)e Dominio'l Bodl. lib. Sir Adrian Fortefcue. 263 About 1 530 Sir Adrian married his fecond wife, me being about twenty years old and he at leaft fifty. This was Anne, daughter of Sir William Rede, or Read, of Boarftall in Buckingham/hire, of an ancient family there. 1 The College of Arms Pedigree makes Anne Reade to have been the widow of Sir Giles Grevill, but I think this is an error, becaufe fhe could not have been more than twenty-one years old, being born in 15 10, when fhe married Sir Adrian ; and alfo becaufe on her monu- ment at Welford two hufbands only are mentioned, viz., Fortefcue and Parry. She bore him three fons, John, Thomas, and Anthony ; and two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, of whom we mall write in their proper places. Sir Adrian feems, during this period and for the reft of his life, to have refided chiefly in Oxfordfhire, where we find him continued in the commiffion of the Peace, either at Shirburn or Stonor Place, with occafional fojourns at his houfe in London "at the Black Friars." A manufcript volume in his handwriting, with the date of 1 532, remains to mow that he had literary taftes, and that he admired the works of his great-uncle the Chancellor. Part of its contents is the treatife " On Abfolute and Limited Monarchy." It was from this copy that Lord Fortefcue of Credan, two hundred years later, printed the work for the firft time. Preceding the former in the volume is a large part of the old poem of " Piers Ploughman," and at the end a collection of proverbs and moral fentences, which is here given : — Many man makes Ryme and lokcs to no Reafon. A King fekant treafon, mall fynde it in his lond. Trow not to the bondc, that ofte hath ben broken. A foole when he hath fpoken, hath all doii. A budde have 5 yroii fhounc, that bydes elke mans dcdde. When the fawte is in the hedde, the mcmbre is ofte fikke. A woman gyf fhe be myke, is evill to knowe. Many one glowes ' the lawe, ofte again the pore. Who fpendes his gude on a hore, hath bothc fkathe & fhame. A man of evill name, is good to forbcrc. He that vfith mofte to fwcre, is not bert trancd. A bowe is belt bowyd, when it is yong. He that Rulith well his tonge, is holdcn for wife. Money goten at the dyfc, riketh not the hcyre. 1 Pedigree in College of Arms. Pedigree and Arms, Had. MS. 1234, f. 35. Fortefcue Pedigree in Vifita- tion of Devon, 1565, Harl. MS. 5871, f. 18. Fortefcue Pedigree in Rawlinfon MS. Britifh Mufeum. Lodge, and the Biographia Britannica, make this lady to be the daughter of Sir William Rede of Rockingham Caftle, but without giving their authority. At the ftile of the effects of the late Mr. J. Bowyer Nichols, in Savile Row falc-rooms, June 28, 1864, a piece of Rained glafs, which I faw, was fold, marked in the catalogue as mowing "Sir Adrian Fortefcue's Arms quartering Chamberlayne and impaling Reade of Boarftall." a It behoves him to have. 3 Interprets. 264 Family of Said en. A woman gyf me be fayre, may hap to be good. A collte of a good ftodde, proves ofte beft. Good cannot bringe left, 1 that is evill wonne. A warke well bigon, hath a better end. Pafe not 2 moche to fpend over mokill on a fole. Yt is eafy to crye yole, 3 at another mans coft. A* mail hunger in frofte, that in hete will not wyrke. Obey well the good kirke, and thow fhall fare the bett r . A woman tyed in fett r . that is an evill trefor. Eate & drink by meafo r , and defye thy leche. Men of mokill fpeche, mon fom tyme lye. Thynke ay thow fhall dye, thow fhall not gladly fynneth. A may be of good kynne, & himfelf litell worthe. The fole byddes go furthe, & hath beth fpore and wande. 5 He that is of evill eland, wyfle men fufpectes. A fcabbyd fhepe infe6r.es, all the hoole flokke. Wherfor ferves the lokke, and the thefe in the houfe. Yt makis a wanton moufe, an onhardy catte. A Swyne that is over fatte, is caufe of his owne dedde. Flee ay from fedde, 6 for fwete thinges are payfe. 7 Thow mayfte amend thre nayefe with ones fayng yea. Ther is not fo litell a flea, but fomtyme he will nye. 8 Yt is not good to ftryve, w th to farre nor to bigge. He that vfeth mofte to figge, 9 is lothe to lofe his crafte. An olid man is daffte, that maryes a yong woman. Thow mon trow fofn mail, or have an yll lyfe. Be not jeloufe over thy wyfe, for fhe will wyrke the warre. He that toucheth pyche & tarre, canot longe be clene. A wounde when it is grene, is beft to be healid. A byle that is long bealid, will breke at the Jaft. Onkindenefs bye paft, wolld be forgete. Be blythe at thy mete, devout at thy rnafle. For litell more or lafle, make no debate. Bett r is the hye gate, then the bye Rode. He that dredes not god, fhall not fayle to fall. He that covetes all, is able all to tyne. 10 About thyne & myne, ryfeth mokill ftryfe. He hath a bleffid lyef, that holdes him content. A bowe that is longe bent, will waxe dulle. 1 Pleafure. 2 Regard not. 3 Yule. 4 Here, and in two other places, A ftands for He. 5 Prick and mifery. 6 Sport. 7 Pays means pitch. » Annoy. 8 To fig is to fidget. 10 i.e. to lofe. Sir Adrian Fortefcue. 265 He that wotes when he is full, he is no fole. Putt many to fcole, all will not be clerkes. At every dogge that barkes, one ought not to be anoyd. He that is well lovyd, he is not pore. Gret labor and care, garres a man to be olid. A good tale yll tolld is fpyllt in the telling. In byyng and fellyng, is many grete othe. Comynly the beft clothe, is beft chepe. He that wotes when to lepe, will fomtyme loke a bak. This it garres me to make, For fhortnes of tyme. Many mail makes ryme, & lokes to no reafoii. L. fin. On the firft fly-leaf of the volume is this entry : — "Thomas Fortefcue, feconde fonne to S\ Adrian Fortefcue, Knight, was borne at Shirbourne in the Countie of Oxforde the Wenfday being the xiij lh day of May in the xxvj th yere of Kinge Henry theight, Anno Dili 1534 hora fecunda port meridiem; God- fathers att the Baptifme were Thomas Rede, Thomas Whitton ; godmother the Lady Williams; godfather at the confirmation the Bifhoppe of Oxoh, that was Abbot of Thame." On the firft page we find the following : — "Jefus. Jefus. Ifte liber pertinet Adriano Fortefcue Militi, fua manu propria fcripta Anno Dominj 1 532,— et Anno R. R. Hen. VIII. xxiiij 10 . Loyall Penfe. Injuriarum Remedium- Oblivio. Omnium Rerum viciffitudo. Parry. Anne Fortescue. Garde les portes dc ta bouche, Pour fouyr peryl et reproche." The writing of the whole volume is in the fame clear ftrong hand, the maxims being, perhaps, more haftily written than the reft. The MS. pafled into the pofleffion of Sir Kenelm Digby, whofe name and initials are written upon it ; he was an intimate friend of Sir Adrian's grandchildren the Fortefcues of Salden. I examined the book at the Bodleian Library, where it is preferved, in 1863, and through the kindnefs of Mr. Coxe, the Librarian, obtained the fac-fimile from it which now appears in this work. We may as well, although rather in anticipation of the date, notice here fome other relics of the knight. M M 2 66 Family of Salden. In Nichol's Hiftory of Leicefterfhire, 1 where he treats of the Fortefcue Turvilles of Huflands-Bofworth, there is an account of a folio mifTal, which was once Sir Adrian's. It is " fecundum ufum Salifbur.," printed at Rouen by Martin Morini, 1510. On the back of the title-page is written in his own hand, " Liber pertinet Adriano Fortefcue Militi," and then the following fentences. The date of 1 536 is that of Queen Anne Boleyn's execution and of Jane Seymour's marriage. We may well imagine how diftafteful mud have been to him that part of the form which orders prayers for Henry VIII., " as fuperior head immediately under God of the fpirituality and temporality of the Church," and are not furprifed that he fcratched them through with his pen. "An order and form of byddyng of bedys by the Kings comandment . A. Domini 1536." Ye mall py for the hole congregacdn of Chrift's chirche, and efpecially for this Chirche of England. Wherin I firft comend [to your devoute pyers the King's moft excellente Majeftie fupreme hede imediately under God of the fprualtie and teporalitie of the fame] 2 Chirche, and the moft noble and vertuous Ladye Quene Jane his moft lawful wife. Scondly, ye fchal py for the Clergye, and Lords teporall and Commons of this realm. Befeechying Almighty God to gyfe evey of them in his degree grace to ufe themfelves in fuch wife as may be to his contentacon, the Kynge's honor, and the weel of the realme. Thirdly, ye mail py for the fouls that be depted abydyng the fnyce of Almighty God, that it may pleafe hym the rather at the conteplacon of o r pyrs to gilt them the fruycon of his psence. "God fave the Kyng." At the foot of the Calendar for June, referred to the 14th day, is : — " Hac die Lune anno dni M' mo V cmo xviii (obiit) Anna uxor Adriani Fortefcue Milito apd Stonor in Com Oxoh ; et fepulta eft in Ecclia porat. de Byftiam in Com Berk a 0 Reg. Henrici odtavi decima tia dmcale C." 3 Againft July 28th is written : — " Obiit J. Fortefcue Milit. Pat r . Adr. a 0 Rg. h. vii. xv." 4 Sir Adrian's feelings of devout attachment to the Church of Rome inclined him, when his royal mafter threw off his allegiance to the Pope, to join a fociety famous for its attachment to the Holy See, and bound together to extirpate herefy ; accordingly, in 1 Nichol's Leicefterfhire, vol. iii. part i. p. 528. 2 N.B. The words between brackets are in the original dafhed through with a pen. Nichol. 3 Sic in orig. The Account Book dates the burial March 31ft, 1525. * i. e., J. Fortefcue, Knight, father of Adrian, died in the 15th year of Henry VII. 1523. Sir Adrian Fortefcue. 267 the year 1532, he was admitted as a knight of St. John of Jerufalem. 1 Mr. Edmund Waterton, whofe courtefy and kindnefs in directing my attention to feveral points relating to the Order I defire here once for all to acknowledge, informs me that Sir Adrian went to Malta for the purpofe. This, however, is by no means likely. There is no trace of any fuch long, and, in thofe days, ferious journey having been taken by him, and we know that he was in England in the year of his admiflion. Moreover, in Mr. Winthrop's Lift of Knights of the Englifh tongue, he is not marked as one of thofe who were known to have been at Malta. He was doubtlefs received by the Lord Prior of the Order in London. Mr. John James Watts, another obliging contributor of information about both the Fortefcues members of the Order to which he is fo much attached, affirms that Sir Adrian, being a married man, could only be a " Knight of Devotion ;" 2 that is to fay, he was allowed to wear the crofs of the Order out of devotion, and to mare all its fpiritual privileges ; but he was not a u Knight of Juftice" in gremio religionis ; the " Crofs of Devotion " having been conferred upon him as a mark of favour, as one who had deferved well of the Order. Two years later, in 1 534 s , the Order was abolifhed in England by Aft of Parliament, and its property confifcated; a body of men fo clofely bound to maintain the Pope's fupremacy being fure to fall under Henry's difpleafure. Up to that time the Lord Prior of England fat in the Houfe of Lords above the fenior Baron. We fhall get fome infight into the details of Sir Adrian's life by examining his " Book of Accounts," kept through the year 1534, and in the beginning of 1535, which is almoft a journal of his actions. The beginning of the former year found him living at Shirburn. In January he receives from John Ford payment of his rent for lands in Devon. We find mention alfo of eftates in Suffolk and Eflex, 4 for which his fon-in-law, Lord Wentworth, paid him a rent. He brings his greyhounds to Shirburn from Stonor. On the 23rd of January he rides to London, by Colnbrook, with l< Mafter Chamberlayne," whofe cofts for the journey he pays, his fervants " Robin and Thome" returning home with the horfes. In London he ftays at " his Lodging," which, however, as other entries (how, was his own houfe, and was fituated in the Black-Friars. Items of payments to "Mr. Knighton for coftes of the law " this term, fuggeft the nature of the bufinefs which had called him to London, where he flayed twenty days, taking home with him to Shirburn his "Coulin Lewis Fortefcue." This was one of the Spridleftone family, who afterwards, in 1542, became a Judge, as Baron of the Exchequer. While in London the knight " gained at play " 7/. 3 s. 2\d. 1 W. Winthrop, in Notes and Queries, Aug. 27th, 1853. L'ft of Englifh Knights of Malta ; " thofe Knights known to have been at Malta will be diftinguiihed by a ftar." 2 Notes and Queries, Jan. 31ft, 1863. 3 Sutherland's Hiftory of the Knights of Malta, ii. p. 1 14. 4 Accounts, in Appendix. 268 Family of Said en. At the time of the Spring Affizes he goes to Oxford, where he had a caufe at Nifi Prius againft Ambrofe Pope, with his coufin Lewis for his counfel. Then comes a fecond trip of a few days to London and back. Then a journey into Gloucefterfhire on the 20th of March, with fix fervants. His bufinefs now was to vifit the Manor of Lafborow near Tetbury, and Bradefton ; the latter was already his property, and the former he now agrees to purchafe. He mentions 1,500 fheep belonging to him there. Paffing through Farring- don on his way home, on Lady Day, March 25th, he hears mafs, and returns to Shirburn or Stonor with four lamprey parties. The farmer and warden of Bradefton entertained their landlord during his ftay without coft to him. In Paflion Week he makes a third journey to London, ftaying from home only five days. This time he is fummoned by a King's meffenger, with letters from Cromwell, the minifter, ordering him to come to the King's Grace. On the 10th of April he is at Shirburn ; on the 26th he leaves it on a fourth journey to town. His fuit with Sir Walter Stonor, in which matter he now expects "the King's award " to be made, and an alarm left he fhould fufFer as fecurity for the old Lord Cobham, as well as the purchafe of the Manor of Lafborow, now concluded and paid for, employed him there until May 22nd, when he returns to Shirburn, taking with him " four pair fmal fchone for his lytel fon John, 1 and Mary." On the 9th of June he leaves Shirburn for London, on his fifth journey, with 27/. 2 s - 9i* de verdad — En teftimonio de verdad, Jhoan de Bragos, Antonio Ruiz de Olea, Scrv". Marcos Perez. EJiratto del Regiflro delle Bolle di Cavalleria dell' Ordini Gerujolombare No. 145, amii 1620, 21, e 22, fol. 345, atergo. Certified by J. Gaspar Le Marchant, Lieut. -Gen. and Governor of Malta. October 31, 1864. Tranflation of the foregoing. In the city of Madrid, on the 6th of September, in the year 1621, in prefence of me, the Licentiate Don Francifco de Valcacer, of the Council of our Lord the King, Alcalde of his Houfe and Court ; and in prefence of me, Lorenzo de Venavides, provincial notary public, was prefented a petition in the following terms : — "I, Doclor Fray Vidal Vitale, Penftonary of the Order and Knighthood of St. John, and in the name of the faid Order, do declare that I have a right to a certificate to this effect — namely, that a Portrait of the Blefied Fray Adriano Fort-Efcu, a Knight of the aforefaid Order, exifts in the Englifti College of this Court, called the College of St. George ; and 276 Family of Sal den. moreover, that I have a right to a copy of fuch part of the contents of the book of the faid Church as relates to the faid Adrian Fort-Efcu. I therefore pray your worfhip to direct that fuch a certificate mail be drawn up by a notary public ; and to this end that the perfon in whofe keeping the faid book is, mall produce it to the faid notary. For this is my right, and I pray for it. Signed with my hand, « Dr. Vidal Vitale." With reference to this petition, the faid Alcalde ifTued an order in behalf of the peti- tioner, which, and other orders made in his favour, are as follows : — " Let the certificate and copy prayed for in this petition be given to the petitioner, and for that purpofe let the book of the aforefaid Church of St. George be produced by the perfon in charge of it. " IfTued at Madrid, by the Senor Alcalde Don Francifco de Valcacer, the 6th of Sep- tember, 1621." " I, Pedro de Figuerda, fcrivener and notary public to his Majefty in his court, kingdoms and lordfhips, at the defire and requisition of Doctor Fray Vidal Vitale of the Order of St. John, went to the Church of the College of St. George, belonging to the Englifh nation, in compliance with the aforefaid order, and there obferved, among other things, that on the left hand as I entered the church, and on the right hand as I flood at the high altar with my face towards the people, there was, in a gilt frame, a portrait painted on board, half-length fize, of a knight, with a blue veft in Englifh fafhion ; no hat ; with a valona 1 in front, and his hands tied together by a cord, with a crofs between them ; a yellow cloak, and on it, at the left fide, the crofs and order of St. John ; a knife is at the throat, appearing to have cut through it, blood flowing from the fame. At the bottom of the board is painted a roll, and on it, written in Gothic capitals, thus : — { The BlefTed Adrian Fort-Efcu, Knight of the Order of St. John, was beheaded for the Catholic faith, together with another Knight of the fame Order, by command of Henry VIII., on the 8th of July, 1539.' " Moreover, William Numan, and Edward MifTendino, Englifh priefts, have declared that the portrait aforefaid is the fame which is mentioned in the aforefaid petition ; and they fay that the hiftory of the aforefaid knight and martyr is related in a book written by Doctor Nicholas Saunders, with the title of De Vifibili Monarchia Ecclefia {Libr. 7".), in which his life and martyrdom are treated of, as well as thofe of Thomas Yngley, his com- panion. This they have declared and figned ; whereof are witneffes Juan Sariel and Juan Betris of this court ; and I believe them. William Numan, Edward MifTendino, Pedro de Figuerda, notary. Madrid, this 6th of September, in the year 1621." The aforefaid documents being fubmitted to the Licentiate Don Francifco de Valcacer, A Valona is tranflated in the Lexicon, " A plaited piece of linen hanging from the collar of the fhirt." Sir Adrian Fortefcue. 277 a member of his Majefty's Council, and Alcalde of his Houfe and Court, he has directed that copies of fuch of them as have been afked for, duly figned and in public form, mall be given to the aforefaid Fray Vidal Vitale, and to others who may wifh for them. And to all fuch copies, as well as to this original, he attaches the authority of a judicial decree, with the power and right of law, to the intent that they may have the force and credit of fuch faid right. Signed by me, Lorenzo de Venavides. This decree is good in judicial acts and in all others; figned by me, Lorenzo de Venavides, notary of our Lord the King, actual pro- vincial notary of the Houfe and Court of the faid King, in that which concerns my office. Together with the Alcalde who here figns, by whofe command I have drawn up this decree. We approve of the above. In teftimonyof the truth whereof, Cruris >J< fignum Notamus. Lorenzo de Venavides. El Licenciado Don Francisco de Valcacer. We the underfigned notaries of his Majefty certify that Lorenzo de Venavides, who has figned and attefted the writing on another part of this paper, is a notary to his Majefty, and at prefent fills the office of provincial notary at this Court for Bias Garcia; and as fuch has always given to the documents which pafs before him entire validity and credit, both in judicial acts and in all others, as writings certified and approved by a notary, faithful, loyal, and truftworthy. And we further certify that the Licentiate Don Francifco de Valcacer, who has figned the aforefaid information, is of the Council of his Majefty, and Alcalde of his Houfe and Court, and performs the duties of that office ; and with him ads the aforefaid Lorenzo de Venavides. And to the end that by him fhould be ratified the petition of Fray Vidal Vitale, of the Order of St. John, we have iftued thefe prefents at Madrid, this 17th of September, 1 6 2 1 . Certified as true, J hoan de Bragos. Certified as true, Antonio Ruiz de Olea, Scrivano. Certified as true, Marcos Perez. Extracted from the Regijler of Stamped Papers of the Order of Knighthood of St. John of Jerufalem y No. 145, a.d. 1620, 21, 22, fol. 345. Mr. Edmund Waterton has fent me a notice of a fifth portrait of our martyr at Florence. Writing on the 1 6th of April, 1865, he fays : " Sir Adrian Fortefcue's figure is introduced in a large frefco in the Anunziata Church; it is rather in the background, and will be recognized from being drefTed in the fighting-drefs, or ' fopra-vefte,' of the order of St. John, viz., a fhort tunic, like a herald's tabard, of red, with a large crofs of white. The frefco is the one at the end of the church, juft over the fhrine of Santa Maria dell' Anunziata." In " Le Martyrologie des Chevaliers de Sainct Jean de Hierulalem," in the Imperial Library, at Paris, as well as in the archives of the order at Malta, there is a coat of arms given as borne by Sir Adrian, which he muft have aflumed as a knight of the order, defcribed as tc Azure, with three (heaves of corn Or." It was only ufed in connection with the order, for we know that he did not alter his family arms. 2 7 8 Family of Said en. When Queen Mary came to the throne fhe did not forget the widow of the man who had fuffered through her father's herefy, but took her at once into favour. She appears among the ladies who attended the Queen on the 30th of September, 1 553, from the Tower to her palace of Weftminfter. "Then next this Chariot rode ten Ladies and Gentlewomen in crimfon velvet, their horfes trapped with the fame, viz. — The Lady Fortefcue, Lady Bruges, Lady Walgrave, Lady Kemp, Lady Manfel, Mrs. Finch, Lady Clarentieux, Mrs. Gerningham, and Lady Peter, Mrs. Sturley." 1 Among the ladies in the chariot we find Sir Adrian's daughter, Lady Wentworth. In the fifth year of her reign (July 25, 1 557-58) Lady Fortefcue received from the Queen grants of feveral manors in Gloucefterfhire, namely, Pamington, Gotherington, Tredington, and Wambourne, near Tewkefbury, and the Manor of Hamfteed near Chipping-Sodbury. 2 Of thefe, Gotherington and Wambourne 3 were fold by her grandfon, Sir Francis Fortefcue, in 1 8th James I. (1620), to Elizabeth and William Craven. The feveral grants of the 5th of Queen Mary are made to "Anne Fortefcue, widow of Sir Adrian Fortefcue, and to the heirs male of Sir Adrian." She married a fecond hufband, Thomas, afterwards Sir Thomas, Ap-Harry, or Parry, who left by her two fons and a daughter. The date of this marriage does not appear. Parry is firft mentioned as her hufband in a licence to alienate a clofe pafture at Weftcott, near Lafborough, in Gloucefterfhire, granted in the 3rd and 4th Philip and Mary, 1556-57, but he muft have been fo long before. Strype 4 writes of him that at Queen Elizabeth's firft council, after her acceffion, one of the chief matters done was that " Sir Thomas Parry, Knight, who had been a fervant much about her, was by her command, and in her pre- fence, declared the Comptroller of her Houfehold, and fworn of her Privy Council." He died in 1 575. His daughter, by Sir Adrian's widow, was married to Sir Thomas Knyvett before July, 1 590, as appears from letters to the latter from Sir John Fortefcue and Thomas Fortefcue of Donnington, where they addrefs him as their brother and his wife as their fifter. 5 Sir Thomas Knyvett, a gentleman of the king's Privy Chamber, and a Juftice of the Peace for Weftminfter, was he who fearched the vaults under the Houfe of Lords, and arrefted Guy Fawkes there preparing to carry into execution the Gunpowder Plot, on the 1 Strype's Memorials, vol. iii. part i. p. 54. 2 Rudder's Gloucefterfhire, 1 779, pp. 235-371, 777.788, and 678. 3 Originalia, in Add. MS. 6387. 4 Annals of the Reformation, vol. i. part i. p. 8. 5 See thefe letters in the Appendix — Rapin, vol. ii. 172 — to Chapter XIII. Sir Adrian Fortefcue. 5th of November, 1605, for which fervice he was in 1607 created Lord Knyvett of Efcrick. Lady Fortefcue furvived until the year 1585, dying on the 5th of January in that year, aged feventy-five years. She was buried in the church of Welford, near Newbury, in Berk- mire, where her fecond fon, Thomas Fortefcue, erected a handfome alabafter monument to her memory, with this infcription : — " Anna Gulielmi Rede militis filia, Adriani Fortefcu, et poftea Thomae Parry militum uxor, hie fita eft. Reliquit ex numerofa prole fuperftites ex Fortefcue filios tres, filias duas; Ex Parrio duos filios, et filiam unam ; caeteris immature decedentibus. Ipfa quinto Januarii anno Dhi 1585. R. Elizabetha regnante. Thomas Fortefcue F. Matri optima; pofuit." The monument, when feen by the author in 1866, was in good prefervation. It is well reprefented in the woodcut. Sir Adrian's children by his firft wife were, as we have feen, two daughters, viz., the eldeft, Margaret, married to Thomas Wentworth, firft Lord Wentworth of Nettlefted in Suffolk, fo created in 1529. This barony, being inheritable by the heirs general, ftill exifts, and was for fome years held by Lady Byron, wife of the celebrated Lord Byron, and now by her grandfon, Lord Ockham, eldeft fon of the Earl of Lovelace, who inherited it in right of his mother Ada Byron, only child of the great poet. The fecond daughter, Frances wife of Silken Thomas Fitzgerald tenth Earl of Kildare, left no family. It was her lot to be the wife as well as the daughter of men whofe heads fell by the axe as fo-called "traitors," the one becaufe he denied Henry's right to a temporal, the other to a fpiritual throne. Sir Adrian's children by his fecond wife were John, the eldeft fon, of whom we fhall have much to fay; Thomas, Anthony, Mary, and Elizabeth. Mary married John Norris, Efquire, of Fyfield in Berkfhire. 1 Elizabeth married Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chancellor of England, who died April 1 2th, 1587, anceftor by her to the Bromleys Lords Montfort of Horfeheath, a title created in 1741. She was buried in the chapel of St. John the Baptift in YVeftminfter Abbey. Of each of the three fons an account will be given in the following chapters. Lodge. 28o Family of Salden. Appendix to Chap. XIII. A. The Book of Accounts of Sir Adrian Forte) "cue, Knight, 10th to i^thof Henry VIII. (a.d. 1518 to a.d. 1538). Preferved in the Record Office, London. The coftes of the beryyng of my lady dame Anne Fortefcue A°. R. Rx. H. viij. x mo . 15 18, and other expenfes done after as within apperith. A tombe & a lay ftone bought at Abendon. And the coftes done at Bysfhopis Hatfeld over my fathers tombe & chapell ther. Cojies of the beryyng & done after for the lady Anne Fortefcue which dyyd the xiiij" 1 day of fune A°. d°. 1518 fff A 0 . R. Rx. H. 8 vi . 10 then monday at Stonor. For me & my doughter Lyvereys. r L s. j a. Item, for xj yards blak fyne .... iiij xiij iiij It. xviij yardes & iii quarters blake .... xiij ix It. xxxij yardes blake ..... cvi viij It. x yardes di of Blake ..... xxvj iij It. ij yardes di blake cotton .... V X It. iiij yardes blak cours cotton .... ij It. ij lb. threde & nedylles ..... XX It. Fuftian Sc lynyng ..... iiij ij It. For coftes to & fro London .... iiij iiij It. To Janet Andrewe ..... XX It. To Dame Lewen ..... XX It. To Mary Tefdale ..... iij iiij It. To Katherine Blackhall .... iij iiij It. to Margaret Robynfon ..... v j viij It. For iiij yardes blak for pelyons .... v j viij It. For iiij yardes blak cotton for fadylles ij It. To the taylers of Henley .... iiij iiij It. to the clerk of Henley ..... xij It. Bryngyng the chyrche gere .... viij It. To the clerk of Henley y e laft tyme xij Sum" . . xviij/. xs. ilijd. Item to the chyrch of Henley for hanyng the chyrch ftuff . v j viij It. for the coftes of derige & mafs ther viij It. to the ftone, for the hers lyght yet is for y e workynges xiijj. iiij^. ) & for the waft ix lb. di v'js. i'njd. & for iiij tapers vj lb. iiij thes \ xxiij viij y e preft had as dewtie to y e vykar fum . J Sir Adrian Forte/cue. 281 It. to y e preftes at Stonor ...... xiiij It. for iiij yardes of blak for y e hers . . . . x It. for vj yardes brode cotton for y e wall .... iiij It. for xij yardes narow cotton for y e rayles v It. for ij ells lynyn for ye hers crofe .... xx It. makyng & fewyng y e crofle . . • ■ ni J It. coftes Rydyng & at Pyrton ..... xvj It. to y e precher of y e fermon ..... x f It. in almes dole to beggers ..... Iiij x ^ a penny a pece vj c . xlvj perfons It. to a prefte fyngynge ther half a yere .... lxvj viij It. to y e clerk of the chyrch ther i'j iiij It. for wyne & wax x Sum" . . ixx. xvijrf. Sum of both fydes xxxviij/. vijj. \\\)d. It. to y e bell ringars at y* beryyng 'j 'j It. to Wodhous & other ...... i"j It. to ij laborers to drefle for ye kechyn .... viij It. to y e clerk of Shyrburn ...... "'j It. to xxiiij torche berers ...... "0 It. to y c parifch preft ther ...... Xl j It. to iiij taylors dreflyng y e hers ..... iiij v j It. to Ric. Benet for his labor ..... viij It. to y e dark of Watlington ..... vj It. to y e clarkes of Watlington at dirige & mafle there . . viij It. y L waft of Shirburn torches & cariage .... xiij It. to y e clerk & his wife ...... xij It. for ye waft of Henley torches ..... iij It. for waft of torches from Watlyngton v It. for a yard of blak, nayles & takettes & a taylor . . xiiij It. to ye Preftes (xlii) & clerkes (iiij) & childern (xij) to ferve & help) _ J ' J/ V XXHJ 111] mafle . . . . . . . . ) It. for wine & wax ....... ij It. for mafle pens thar ...... xx It. for y e waft of Cupham torches ..... ij viij It. for vj ryngars at Watlington ..... ij ij It. to y c clarke for ye pitt & other befynes at Pirton. . . xx It. a carpenter making y' frame about the herfe & other work . ij It. for ye lay ftone in ye chauncell payd to the vykers duputie . vj viij Sum Ix viij j. iij^/. O o 282 Family of Salden. Dener at ye beryyng. Dener. d. Item, for ij befes & ix mottons lx It. for vij Lambys than .... vj It. for iiij calvys . xij It. for x gefe & ij capons .... v iiij It. for xxiiij copill Conys . . . viij It. for xv pygges ..... vij j It. for creme, butter, egges, fait & coles iij iiij It. for cuppes and trenchars V It. for creme difhes and pottes It. for viij kylderkyns bere from Stonor xij It. a quarter of whete in bred from thens . vj It. to y e cokes and helpers &c. viij x It. bryngyng kechyn fluff & caryyng it home ij It. fent thether xx galons wyne xiij "ij It. for ale from Watlington xix It. for bred from thens . . . xxxvij iij It. for caryyng & makyng vi lodes wood iij viij It. to ye barbor of Watlyngton for his labor Sum x/. xiiij. v]d. the nomber of pore peple ther than as apperith by y e id. dole before, war in al vi c xlvj parfons and of other by eftymacion Sum a totalis before writtyn is xlij/. ix*. jd. ye Wikers depute had an ambelyng nagge for ye mortuary after ye monethes mynd deliveryd. M M d VIIJ ccc & above Dener. The monethes mynd. Item, to the wyker of Pirton It. to xlvj preftes ther It. to clarkes & maffe helpars It. to Benet for dreffing awters It. to y e bell ryngars ther It. the mane pens than ther . It. for the wax of y e hers and the waft and y e goodly makyng It. at Stonor chapell vj Preftes It. maffe pens ther ...... It. to y e dark & pore folk ther .... It. at y e Savoy than I beyng ther at London in al xv maffes that day lxxu. \]d. It. a bolock & x fchepe than ther . It. xi kylderkyns of bere from Stonor It. xxi dofyn bred from Watlington •J xxiiij vij ij viij xij iij viij xx v j xlvj viij xiiij viij XXI The yeres mynd. Coftes at Byfham. Sir Adrian Fortefcue. 283 £ s. d. It. for ij calvys than ...... v ) viij It. for x pygges than ...... iiij iiij It. for x geffe than ....... iiij »j It. for butter to baft mete than ..... viij It. p d making & cariage of iij lodes wood .... xxiji It. in rewardes to iij Cokes ...... 'j It. fechyng neceflarys ...... XX It. for fyngyng, wine & wax than ..... y vl. vs. v'ujyj. Sum" viij/. xvij*. ij;^. Item for the fyrft yeres mynd at Pyrton .... xxvj viij It. for xxxvj (?) fko[ch]yns of armys both in (xij) mettall & xxvij colores grett & large to geve to dyvers chirches in the cuntrey . Sum" tatalis of al this boke before writyn is liiij/. viij*. \)\d. xxxvj The tombe of marble. Anno xj R. Re. H. viij. 'Item paid to the marbelers of Corff for a tombe of marble like to Sir \ paid full Robt. Southwells in y' cloyfter in the Blak Frere at London j. v jjj Anno xj r. rs. H. viij & it is del d at London to me . .J It. p' 1 to a marbler in Powles chirch yard for the pictures, writynges\ & armys eylt after y 1 ' rate of Sir Thomas of Parres tombe in y e Blak Frere ther Sc to fett yem in y' marble as appcrith by a bill . indentyd A°. xiij° R. Re. H. 8. . . . J It. gevyn to Pyrton chirch a veftment of blak velvett with thappur- tenaunces. fit. paid for the caryage of the faid tombe to Powles chirch yard to y' ^ marbler ther . . . . . . . J It. paid to the marbelar ther for workyng a cater over the one end of the tombe . . . . . . . ) Item, paid for the caryage of the faid tombe to y' barge with the cranage | & oyer coftes . . . . . . j It. paid for the water carriage of the faid tombe to y e priory of |^ Biftiam in Berkfhire . . . . . . j \ It. paid for the dyggyng the pytt ther, the brykkcs, the morter, the workman makyng the warte & the coveryng of it with tymbcr . . & ye pavyng and helpyng y" marbelar in all . . 1 It. paid in reward for the fettyng up & fynyftiyng the faid tombe & ) neceflariis ther . . . . . .1 It. paid to the marbelar of the Black Frere for the tombe lyyng with ) hym ij yere . . . . . . .J It. gevyn to y° marbelars fervaunt for comyng to Stonor . ^ ij/. iiij*. vj^. full Ixvj Vllj V J XV "j "ij X.J viij xviij Olj iiij xij 284 Family of Salden. Cojies in the removyng of my /aid ivyfe's body to Byjham priory in Barkfchir the lajl day of Marche in the xvj th yer of the reyng of Kyng Harry the VIII th . tem. paid to mafter prior ther for her layftone yer . tern, gevyn to hym & his covent for the derige the mafle & oyer ) befynefs . . . • • • • > t. paid to y e vyker of Byfham for the clayme of a mortuary t. paid for makyng of a new coffyn & puttyng the body into it & y fyrft dyggyng at Pirton none . t. for makyng and orderyng the horflytter t. for blak colowryng of it t. for xxvi yardes of blak cotton for it & ye hors t. the coftes lyyng of it at Redyng t. for an ell of lynnyn cloth for y e crofle . t. to a taylor orderyng y e litter & hors t. for vi fkochyns of armys, iiij of y em at Byfham t. paid for xij ftaff torches of wax . t. paid to vi torche berars all the way t. geven to y e vyker of Pyrton for his payn t. to v other preftes with y e body al the way t. to y e clark of Pirton beryng the crofe al y e way t. to vij preftes of iij parifhes rec d . y e body by y e way t. to the clarkes of the fame parifhes t. gevyn to Pirton chirch iij iiij<^. to Tyfeld chirch iij 5-. iiij^. to Marlowe chirche iij iiiji. to Bifham parifhe chirch ijj. for torchwaftes & Ryngyngges . tem. gevyn to Henley chirche for y e crofle and y e pall t. to ye torche berars for drynkyng homeward t. for men of Henleys drynkyng at Henley t. for Mafter Whitton & y e preftes drynkyng at Marlowe t. gevyn to Thakkanes fon for his labor and bryngyng y e hors to cary y e horflytter t. paid for pavyng agayn the chauncel at Pirton t. for bred & drynk at Pirton chirch fyrft . t. for iij kylderkyns of bere at Tyrfeld t. for viij caft of manchettes t. for xxvj caft of houfhold bred . t. for iiij faltfisfties xxd. a lynge xijd. ftokfisfhes xd. one faltfamond xiiij^., iiij fait eles xvji., 1. white herynges xij^., xl redd herynges viijif., fresfyfch iiij*., fum t. for muftard, fait, & ungeons t. to Sadelar to help the coke t. for makyng clene y e vykerage at Tyfeld & y e weffel t. for ale ther s. lxvj xxxi d. viij Sir Adrian Forte/cue. 2\ £ , d. It. for mete for the ij caryage horfes .... iij It. for bred & drynk at Byfham priory at y e buryall . . iij iiij It. for William Thomas coftes at Henley .... viij Sum of the tombe & of the faid removyng is in all . . xxiiij x vj Summa totalis of all the expenfes in this boke writyn confernyng | .... y \ lxxvnj xix v|- the buryalles of y e fayd dame Anne tortefcues body ys . J xxxiiij p" In Augufie. A" xxx° R. Re. H. VIII. Item paid for my tombe ageyne at the rafyng of Byftiam priory, xxj., & paid for the takyng of it down, and for the coftes to the water yjx., & for caryyng it to Henley ij;. vuyi. & for the image of the trinyte viij^. and for a new fmall coftyn \u]d. & for my } fervauntes coftes ij days x\)d. & for Ric. Hall his labor in the faid caufe and bryngyng the coftyn with the bonys to Brightwell chirche iij \\\]d. ...... Item paid to the clerk for makyng the grave by the hye awtcr ther the xj day of Auguft ...... Item paid for the coftes of my cart fetchyng the tombe ij" lodes and helpe to lode ....... Item my cart caryyng the ij" lodes ..... ij p'. Item In Lent A* xxix' R. Re. H. VI 11+ Item paid for hole fquare hye marble tombe, & a nother great lay ' ftone bought at the rafyng of Abendon monaftory chirche, withe the fydes & fteppis & appurtenaunces xxs. and paid for the \ xxix vi takyng of it downe & caryyng of it to the hartcr ther St for my fervaunts coftes theraboute iij* days ix*. v]d. fumam totalis . , 'J P' xxij ences done iff made by we Sir Adrian Fortrfcue knight in iff upon my fathers chapell in the parijhe chirche off Bysfiopis Hat/eld in the countie of Hertford. Fyrft paid for the tombe of marble bought of the marbelars of Corft", | ... befides xxiijj. iiij^. paid by my brother fum paid by me . I Item, paid for the images & armys and ye wrytyng thereto . . xx Item paid for writyng of the indenture and drawyug of the armys xx Item paid for cariage of the tombe to Hatfeld x Item paid for the marbelars coftes to fett it ther . . iij iiij Item for ij gret candleftykes for the awter .... iiij Item, for ij papis of bone & glaffe ..... ij in j Item paid for ij" tynne crewettes ..... viij Item paid for a tabill of the crufyfyx .... xx Item, paid for the tabill of the Oracion .... XX Item for a veftment with the appurtenaunces of red chamlet . xxxiij iij :86 Family of Salden. s. iiij xl XX Vllj HJ Item paid for caryyng my greyhoundes to Schirburn Item p' 1 for all Matter Chamberleyns coftes and myn at Colbrok Item p d for my foper and coftes that night . Ulj d. viij Vllj xvi vnj XX lllj Item paid for ij° gret formes & the cariage thether . Item for ij towels for the preftes handes .... Item paid for the making of the gret dore & the tymber & all the | iron work to it . . . . . . / Item paid for mendyng of the glafie the leade y e pavyng iiji. iu]d. & for the locke iij*. iujd. . . . ... Item paid for caryyng of y e faid ij° gret dore xl. xvjd. Item paid for a gret tabernacle for the awter bought at Cales in the warr tyme .... Item for cariage of it to London . Item for cariage of it from fchip to Strond . Item for cariage of it to Hatfeld Item for fettyng & mendyng ye tabernacle Item paid for iiij gret formys moo Item for Sir Humfrey the preftes coftes to come to me to London Item fent thether at Mighelmas A° xviij R. Re. H. VIII vi . a new awter clothe & ij curteyns of red & grene Frenche fay lynyd with bokeram & frengid, price in all . Item, paid than for mendyng the glaffe wyndows Item paid for mendyng & orderyng the awter clothe of damafke Item paid for iij yardes & di of blewe bokeram to cover the awter Item for Sir Humfreys coftes to come to me Item for the knelyng bordes & fettyng & orderyng of the curteyns \ irons . . . . . . . ] Item fent thether at Whkfontyde A 0 xx R. Re. H. VIII. ij lynnyn \ awter clothes & a lynnyn corporas after the robbyng of the [■ vij vj chirch price . . . . . . . J Ixxvj. y)\d. Summa totalis paid by me xiij/. xvj*. x\d. Tcrmino HilK A 0 . xxv<°. R. Re. H. VUI. Sir A. Forte/cue Knight. Item brought in my purs from Schirburn the xxiiij day of January . xxij vj Item rec 1 of Harry Rowley in full payment . . vj xiij Item rec d of John Ford for y° Criftmas rent of my londes in Devon vi xiij Item rec d of Harry Rowley for coftes in the accions . . x Item Sum . xxxvj/. ii]s. i'ujd. Xlj xviji XX xij Vllj iiij iiij Ulj x Sir Adrian Fortefcue. Lent fluff. wyne. lyverey. fchyrtes. Item p d for a torche lynk than Item delivered to Robyn for my horfe coftes and his home Item p' 1 for my horfe coftes in all now Item p d for a male pilion viij^. & for ij colers p d xd. Item p' 1 for Thome his coftes home Item p' 1 for ij. pfalters xviij*/. Sc for ynk ^ . Item p d for a lityll piftill .... Item p d for bote hyer to Wednefday Item gevyn in reward to J. Coke for prefentes Sum xxs. i'.d. s. d. ' Item P d for a berell & \ of white herynges . xxiiij Item P" for a cade of redherynges . . vij Item P d for iij cades of fprottes . iiij v ) Item P d for xx copil of betyn ftokfifches viij iiij Item P d for vj falmondes X Item P" for xl falte eles xiij iiij Item P d for \ a barell to put yem in V J i Item P" for ij bafkettes & cord X Item P d for an ell of canvas iiij Item P" for the wharfage & water bayly iiij Item P d for ij ropis of grct onyons Item P d for C. oraynges xd. Sc for xxiiij fwete oraygcs vii]d. Item P d for a pece of fyges dodes contain- xxx lb. ijx. vjd. Sc Ulj IX xxx lb. of reyfons ij*. vjd. Sc for x lb. almondes, ijj. \'yl. Sc for vi lb. fugar, ij*. \\jd. vj lb. prunys \ul. a bafkett and lyne iiij<7. Item p d for ij hogefhedes of claret wyne \s. Sc coftes v'ujd. Item p d for my foper Sc coftes at my lodgynges to Fryday | Item p' 1 for iij yardes of lyverey price Item gevyn to Thomas for the lynyng Item p d for a yard of tawny fay Item p' 1 for ix elles and I of holond for ij fchyrtes Sc ij kerchcrs price per ell xvd. ..... Item p d for half an elle of fyne holonde cloth for fchyrt bandes xvjd Item p d for mendyng the glafe wyndowes in y" parler at London Item p d for bote hyer to Sonday Candilmas evyn . Item gevyn to Andrewys underfchryf of Oxon 8t Berks Item p d in thefcheker for refpecl of homage in Oxon Item p d for writyng a bill of new to the Kynge for Sowthwales Item p' 1 for v fmall Englifh bokes .... Item p' 1 for a large matens boke for myfelf . Item p d for coftes at my lodgynges to Candilmas day 1 iij xiij XIII 'J ».i viij 287 d. vi ix iiij xviij v j xviij i- ij xij XX X xviij vij viij xij XV J viij viij xvj ix xvj xij 2 88 Skavage. Family of Salden. Item gevyn to the gromys in y e Kynges chamber . Item p d to the fkaveger for this quarter endyd at Criftmas Sum . . x/. viijj. Y)d Item p d for bote hyer to Wednefday . ■ Item p d for a torche lynk on Teuyfday at night Item p d for x qwayres of fyne paper i a reme Item p d for vj elles of bokeram \\]s. & for j ell holond xvj^, Item p d for vi fawfers, ij dimes & a plate weyyng ix lb. & ^ price the lb. iiij|^. fum .... Item p d for a yard & i blak for my hofyn . Item for an ell of bokeram for my bote hofyn Item p d for makyng of them both . Item p d for mendyng my cap cafe . Item for mendyng the lokes i]d. & for iij rubbers id. Item for wyne & coftes at my lodgyng for my brother Item p d for wyne & oraynge pyys fent to Doctor Cokkes on Friday Item fent thether on Saturday at night Ipocras wafers Item p d to Mr. Knighton for coftes in the lawe this terme by bill Item gevyn to M r . Porters clerk to remember Hunteleys releafe Item p d to Baflett for the Ni p r againft Pope & coftes Item p d for new fealyng the write of extent ayenft Sir E. Chamberley Item p d for wrytyng thanfwer in parchement to Ranfey Item p d for a torche lynk on Saturday Item p d for coftes at my lodgyng to Sonday Item p d for a bonet of velvet for my wife price Item p d for ij yard of fyne holond for my wifes crefomes & neceflarys .... Item p d to John Skute for makyng my wifes fay gown & lynyng the playtes & making & lynyng a pair of faten flevis & makyng a faten patelette in all . Item p d for ix red horfharnefs & one blak . Item p d to my fchomaker in all this terme . Item p d for a fylk gyrdyll for me . Item p d for a galon of wyne fent to my wyfe Item gevyn to Dolphyn for bryngyng & caryyng gere Sum uij Item p d for fyllyng the ynk botell . Item p d for ij ftone crewfys for my lodgynges Item p d for bote hyer to Fryday Item gevyn to Edmunde the pedejer in charite Item p d for bote hyer on Sonday . cxvnj uij »J d. xij iiij xvnj v j xvij nj vnj Vlj XX iij xiiij v j XX X viij xvj v j xij xxiiij iiij x v j xxvj viij vij viij xx viij viij mj viij xij XX V J Wages expences at Oxford at y' Aflice Sir Adrian Fortefcue. Item p rt for coftes in the counter of Robyn horfkeper Item lent to Frognal .... Item for vurnifhyng of a pair of ftyropes, a pair of ftyrope lethers & one yard of canvas for a duftyng cloth in all . Item p' 1 for vurnyfchyng & letheryng my fpores Item p' 1 for mendyng & fettyng the flower with y" iiij perles Item p' 1 to the freres in the covent place Item p d for coftes at my lodgyng to y e laft Saturday Item p' 1 to Days wife for wasfhyng my fhirtes Item p' 1 fur hir quarters wages Item p' 1 for ij botelles (xiid.) of galons lctherid & the wyne \'md, of one .... Item p' 1 for a loft botell of a galon to Th. Spencer Item p' 1 for ij lb. of fugar to cary with me . Item p rt for the coftes of me & iij fervauntes at London xx days Item p' 1 for my horfes & my cofyn Lewys Fortefcuys at my inn Item p' 1 for the hyryng of horfes for my parte home Item p' 1 for ij elles of lynnyn xvW'ul. ij ounces lafyyng rebcnd, ij;. \\\)d. one ounz flat rebend xvd. a quartern of threde \]d. fum Item del' 1 Ric. Bifhop for the coftes of the accions, for Roben horflceper .... Item p' 1 for my coftes at Colbrok homeward for caryyng the males to ftrond Item p Item iiij Sum . vj/. vij;. iiij*/. totalis . xxiij/. xiijj. vij [ J. gaynid at play vij/. iij*. iiji^. Item brought home & lent in all xix/. xiiji. ' Item expences at my lodgyng at Oxford at the aflice in all as appcrid i by a bill of the parcclls . . . . . I Item for puttyng in the Ni p'. ayenft Pope ther Item my attorneys fee ther xxd. to y' fryers & cryar viija'. . Item to the underfchrift' for returnyng ij writtes & of Ni p r . Item a waraunt (iiij'/.) into Bcrkfchirc & drynkyng atWhateley (iiij*/.) Item in retaynyng of M r . Holt vjs. \\\jd. k my cofyn lewys Fortefcu | his coftes \i]s. \jd. & Rafe Vyne his coftes iiij;. \ii)d. . . I Item caryyng the hacney horfes to London { Item gevyn to W. Dyker for kepyng the parkc iiij days Item p' 1 to Gyllam for mendyng gere at Candilmas . Item p' 1 for fchoyng my horfes at Candilmas Item p d for my horfes coftes & fcrvaunt to London for me at Saynt Valentynes day > P P Vij 'j "J 289 d. iiij "J xviij iiij iiij V J XX iiij xiij "'J vij VI1J Ixviij xj x ij iiij iiij viij xviij x viij XX xiiij 290 coftes yn to Gloucler- fliire Rewardes < Family of S a Men. Item gevyn to M r . Schryffes fervaunt at Stonor the xxviij day of Marche ...... Item fpent that day at Watlyngton Item gevyn for caryyng letters & a male to London Item p' 1 for fchoyng my horfes the fecond day of Marche . Item my expences at London & thether and home on Thorefday Item p' 1 for a new fword gyrdil of velvet blak Item p d for a kniff (i)d.) & mendyng my gyrdill (j^.) Item p d for a fubpcena for John Hunteley Efq. ( Item my coftes into Gloceterfchire that is to fay vj fervauntes & my- ) felf at Abenden at Dener the xx day of marche in]s. xjd., & at Faryngdon Fryday at night iiijj. vij^., at Tyrfyter ' at dener at Saturday iiijf. v)d., coftes at Tetbury & horfbred to Lafbarowe \)s. u\]d., rewardes at Bradefton \]s. xd. coftes home ward at )■ Fayerford on our Lady day at night iu]s. vi]±d. at Faryngdon our Lady day at mafle xviij^. at Abendon, at dener i]s. xj-id. Item Ric. coftes vijd. & caryyng the iiij lampery paftyys xxd. fum totalis . . . . . . . ) Mem 1 ". Saturday at night & Sonday al day I lay at Bradefton Where the farmor & warden with other with prefentes paid for al my coftes which by boke cofte the farmor xs. ix^. and the warden xxixs. ijd. and at Lafbarowe I was Monday & Teuyfday at dener at M r . Nic. Wykes cofte ' Item gevyn in reward at Lafbarowe the xxiiij of Marche to John Boughton & W. Cokkes of Burton for comyng to me to vyewe my xv c fchepe at my receipt of them of M r . Nic. Wike £ Item gevyn than to M r . Matftons clerk for writyng the new inden- ture & other thynges betwene me & M r . Wyke t Item gevyn to Rye. Fordes wyffe at my feeyng my yong fon xv V Vlj 1UJ Vllj V X xviij X viij vj p d Ulj viij Coftes to and at London in PaJJion weke. Item gevyn to Swalowe the kynges mefenger bryngyng M''. Crom welles letters to me to come to the kynges grace Item my coftes in all to London the xxvj day marche & ther tyll ) monday the morowe after Palmefonday that is fyve in all ont . ' Item del 1 ' than to Tho mas Spencer in full payment for a hogefhede ) of redwyne xxvs. & for the coftes to the barge xij^. . . ^ Item p d for fchoyng of my horfes into Glouceterfchire Item p d to Gyllam for work before & than Item p d for \ a. bufh 1 . of malte for my horfes Ilj mj xxviij p d xxvj p d xvij 1 This mud be an error for " Cyrfyter," i.e., Cirencefter. Sir Adrian Fortefcue. houfe- rentes Rewardes ( Item fent by Elyn Day to Ric. Bysfhop to pay my houfe rente at 1 London due at this Efter . Item p d for ij lether bagges for my ij fylk jakettes Item p d for a pynt & i a pynt wyne pottes Item p d for ij dofyn fylk poyntz x\)d. a tewke bage xinyL a yard & j of tawney fay xvi'yl, ij yardes quart', fuftyan for dobelet lynynges xu\d. •"***. . . Item p d for a yard of blake bokeram for bagges for my cotes Item gevyn to Fordes wyfe the viij day of Aprell in reward at Schir- burn ........ Item to William Thomas wife & hir mayde ' Item fpent at Affenden at Hoktyde court . Item gevyn to the wifes of Salley and Pyfhull Item gevyn to the wyfes of Pirton for the chirche . Item gevyn to the wyfes of Schirburn for the chirche Item p d for caryyng my coffer to Henley . Item p d for fchoyng of my horfes at Hocktvde i ] XV J "J iiij 291 vnj XV 111] V11J 1IJ VIIJ iiij viij viij iiij iiij; Termino Pafche A°. xxvj'". R. Re. H. viij'''. Sir A. Forte feu Knt. Item brought in my purs from Schirburn the xxix day of Aprell | 1, 1 xliiii ix iiij in money in all . . . . . . ) J J Item rec' of John Ford for Devonfchire rent now . . vij vj viij Item rec d from my wife the xij day of May in a letter . . . lxvij ij Item borowyd of Wm. Dauntefcy mercer wherin loft in all viij/. xixf. iiijd. with xs. to the broker & ix;. iiijc/. p d . for y' ftatute & the ' 1 defefuant fum to be borowyd of the faid William . . I Item rec d of my Lord Wentworth for the Ellcr rente of my londes ^ in Suff. & Effex by a bill del 1 ' to Barker . . I XXJ Item rec d of the Archebifliop of Cauntcrbures executors in parte of 1 XXX11 J V J V1I J payment or c. marks agreed ..... J as aperith by acquitaunce indentyd dated xx die maij A", xxvj'' . R. R. H. viij. Co//es. m Item p d for my dener & others at Colbroke than Item bote hyer to my lodgyng that night Item my (oper that night Sc coftes to Sonday at my lodgyng Item coftes of my horfes & the horfkeper ij" days Item gevyn to ij of the Kynges mefangers with letters Item the horfkepers coftes home "J iiij »j xx X viij v 292 tythes Skavage [Upon a fmall flip enclofed] Nevyle lofles bay fait Rewards i Family of Said en. Item del d to Th. Honychirche for his full Efter wages Item p d for writyng my parte of Lafbarowe indentures Item p d for ij fwath bandes xij^. ij^lb. white fope vij^. iiijlb. com felles ij*. \\\)d. fum ..... Item bote hyer to Sonday ..... Item gevyn to M r . Brown & M r . Chenley & Sir H. Wyngfeld xxs & to Bradfhawe xs. & to M r . Baldwyn vs. for a drauyng & de vyfyng of the anfwer to Sir Walter Stonors articles Item p d for writyng the anfwer to the Articles of Stonor Item p d for the copey of the fame articles . Item for bote hyer to Thorefday Item gevyn to the proceflar to ftay all the accions . ( Item gevyn to fewer of the Kynges procefle to ftay pro- cefle in fewte ayenft me as fewertee for the old Lord Cobham tyl the matter be tryyd between the Kyng & the Lady Cobham late wife to the faid old lord in reward .... Item gevyn to the fecundary of the counter for difchargyng his boke Item p d for iiij pair of fmal fchone for my lityl fon John & Mary Item p d for certeyn oyntmentes & a powder for my wyfe . Item fent to my wyfe a frefch gret conger (ijj. xd.)Sc ij foles (viij^.) Item gevyn to Robyn to carye yt home .... Item p d to the parfon for the tythe of my hous rent at London after 1 x]d. of the nobill of xl. xvjs. vii]d. old rentes & due for one yere at Efter A 0 . xxv to . R. Re. H. viij vi . fum . Item p d than to the fkaveger for this quarter Item p d for a boke of the adtes of parlement A 0 , xxv Item p d for my horfkepers coftes in all xvd. & the horfes coftes xij^, & for fchoyng vd. fum . . . . .J Item p d for bote hyer to Grenewich on Sonday the x day of May Item p d for bote hyer at London to Afcenfion day . • . Item p d for writyng a new obligation betwen Sir Walter Stonor & me ill „r ,,- f Klarke joiner delyvd to Wylham < , \ ( or Klarke fonn betwyet harff a waye ij lb. tal vij chefes atp r . xs, [endorfed] vij chefes. Item p d to Will. Nevyle Efq. in full paymentes for the purchafe of the manor of Lafbarowe in Glouc. in the prefence of my Lord Chaun- celer as aperith on my indenture indofyd & fygnid the fum of . Item loft in the fchiffte with Will. Dauntefey mercer in the fum of £1. in wares with xs. to the broker Sc ixs. \ii]d. for the ftatute & the defefuant fum total loft ..... Item gevyn to Dolfyn for bryngyng & caryyng letters £ I of Henle vij hefeks ches vuj vj vnj U J X J xij XXXV XX xviij Jxvj viij Vj VIIJ ij "j v j iiij vj v p d iiij X Vllj V J X IX 11 IJ payment of a fee The fliomaker f Sir Adrian Fortefcue. Item p d for xiij busfhelles of fait vs. xj| & for a but to put it in xiiij^. Sc to the porters iiij*/. & to the cowpers liijd. Si cariage to Quene hithe viij*/. fum . Item p' 1 for cc. here hoppis xviijj. & for xij kylderkyns vs. and vj | barelles iiij;. v)d. & iij bondell of hopis x\\)d. & for {- a way of chefe xs. i]d. vij chefes &for xij bondelles of rusfhys ijs. fum a Item p d for ij yardes of blalc fay .... Item p d for vj yardes crane color fuftyan . Item p d for iiij elles of lynnyn cloth Item p d for a pair of rydyng glovys Item p d for Item p d to John Ramfey by the arbyterments & order of M r . Sul- yard of the Kynges graces councell for the full arrerages of the fee & patent of Edmund Ramfey graunted by Sir Will. Stonor & his feoffees & the faid patent is delyveryd to me 5: cancelid, and alfo I the faid Sir Adrian have a generall acquitaunce of the fame John of & for all caufes — fum paid in rcdy money Item p d for coftes at my lodgyng afcencion day Item p d for bote hyer to Grenewych on afcencion day Item p d ij new tewke b my felf Item p d for bote hyer to Grenewych on Kryday Item p' 1 for bote hyer to Grenewich on Sonday Item p d for coftes at my lodgyng to VVednefday | Item p' 1 to my fchomaker for all except my botes Item p d Water Wilcokkes in partie of payment of Ixj. Item p d to the Kynges attorneys clerk for writyng the Kynges award 2 93 Item p' 1 for my apparaunce to privy feale iij*. & and for a privy feal for my old lady Cobham xs. vii]d. ret' 1 craftino Johannis ...... Item p' 1 my bote hyer at London to Wcdncfday Item bote hyer to the Serjauntes inn dyvers tymys . Item p' 1 for my hofe cloth iiij;. & for the makyng xv]d. Item p' 1 a bonet for me & one for Auftcyn . Item gevyn for writyng the acquitaunce indentyd bctwen the arche bifhop of Caunterbures executores & me for the receyte of L Hikes parcel of c. markes .... Item p' 1 for vurnisfhyng my fpores & . . paid of ftyropis Item p d for ij fyne brofhys ..... Item p the xxj day of June . . . . .1 Item p d for coftes at my inne than of my horfes . . . iiij Item p d for my coftes at Clbrok that Sonday homeward . . ij viij Item p' 1 for my horfes fchoyng iij tymys .... xxiij Item p d to W. Dyker kepyng the parke xxi days ... iij viij Item p' 1 for my horfkepers coftes with my horfes to London . ix Item p d to Th. Honychirch at Shirburn for mydfomer quarter wages x Item p' 1 to Dolphyn for caryyng a of Awfteyns gere . iiij Item to Gyllam for mendyng the childerns apperell . . xviij Item p' 1 for my coftes at Colbroke the iij 1 day of July . . ij viij Item del' 1 to Thome for my horfes coftes home ... ix Item p d for bote hyer to my lodgyng .... ij i Item p d to Will"' Broun mercer in full payment & y' ftatute dclvvcryd xxi payments ) ' r 1 ' ' * \ Item p' 1 to Roger Yong gent, for Brightwel rent due at Efter laft xx ix Item p' 1 for a yard St g for iij pair of hofyn for my wife . . iij vj Item p d for makyng of them ..... xij Item p' 1 for a yard & \ for my hofyn .... iiij Item p' 1 for the makyng of them ..... xij Item p d to Hawclif for parte of this quarters wages . . v Item p d for vij [ lb. fugar iiij;. ij lb. peper iij j. v'rijd. iiij lb. corantcs xd. viij vj Item p' 1 for xviij galons iij quartes wyne fek y' g. xd. . . w v ij ^ Item p' 1 for xj galons & I pote malmefey y' - g. xd. . . xij xj Item p (1 for canvas to ftuft'e them in & caryage . . . x 'i'j; Item p' 1 Item gevyn to Dolphyn for bryngyng a buk ... xx Item p' 1 for caryyng for a letter to my wyfc in haftc . . viij Item p' 1 for | lb. of blake threde ..... viij Item p' 1 for ij fmall latyfes ..... ix Item p' 1 for a cheft to trufl'e glafle & other lluft" ... vij Item p' 1 for iiije. white nayles for dores .... xxij Item p' 1 for coftes at my lodgyng to Fryday ... xvi Item p' 1 for botehyer at this my laft being at London . . ij Item p d for fchoyng my horfes & ther coftes to London . . xx Item gevyn to M'. Chauncelcres fervaunt D'. Cokkes fervauntes > . to make mery . . . . . . j * rewards. - . Item p' 1 for wntyng the ij acquitaunccs & rcleafcs . . ij Item gevyn to M r . Doctor Cokkes porter . . . iiij wood. houferent. coftes 296 Family of Salden. ' Item p d to Ric. Bysfhop for makyng my blak gownd, ijj. & for makyng my rydyng cote \y. . Item del' 1 to Ric. Byfchope to pay for my wood cariage, that is to fay x lodes water cariage, x]s. v'rijd. & viij lodes cariage to my home ij*. befydes ij lodes of billettes gev to hym Item del' 1 to Elyn Day to bye cc. fagottes Item p d to hyr for this quarter wages Item del' 1 to Ric. Bysfhop for my houfe rent for this mydfomer quarter Item p d to the fkaveger for this quarter Item p' 1 for caryyng my fluff to barge Item p d for xij bondells of ... . rusfhys Item p' 1 for caryyng my male to my inne Item p d for coftes at my inne of my horfes Item p d for my coftes at Colbroke homeward the xj day of Julii & fchoyng . C Item p d for my coftes and my ii fervauntes at London at thes I tymys by the space of xviij days -Item W. Tefdales coftes with me ther xj days Item p d for mendyng the bare hyde Item p d for fchoyng my horfes at Saynt Jamys tyde Item p d for my coftes at the affice than at Oxford Item gevyn to the fryers and cryar ther Item p d to the underfhryff for Ambrofe Pope Item p d for withdrawing the exigent ■ . Item p d to Dyker for kepyng the parke iij dayes . Item fpent at Affenden at dener . Item gevyn to the ij norfes Item p d for a yard of blak faten for my dobelet Item p d for a bonet for Thomas Fortefcu Item p d for cariage of a letter to London by Dolphyn Item p d to Gyllam for mendyng of gere . Item gevyne to Edmunde Schirwood in reward . Item p' 1 for laces for the maydyns Mem. — Here I was commytted to the Knight Marftialls ward at Wodftoke. Receyts Mem. in my purs in money from Schyrburn the xxix day of Auguft A 0 . xxvj'° R. Rs. H. viii. . intratur Mem. receyvyd from John Haywood by Rob', caryar the xxij day of Sept. A 0 , xxvj' 0 R. Rs. H. viii. . rekenid Item rec d of my wiffe at London the iiij day of October . i IHj xiij viij v j v xvj viij iiij iiij XX iiij vj y lxxij v xij xj Vlj ij »j V J V J xij x X j viij vnj XX viij iiij viij iiij IHj Xj Vj Ixvj without lxvj VIIJ bill, viij Sir Adrian Fortefcue. Mem. I receyvyd of Anthony Fortefcu by the handes of Lewys Fortefcu gent, tenne powndes to the ufe of Awfteyn Rede other wyfe callid Aufteyn Fortefcu due to the faid Aufteyn for one hole yeres annuyte out of the parfonage of Ermyngton in Devonfhire endyng at the annunciacion of our Lady laft pad by my bil fygnid & fealid datyd the xij day of October A° xxyj R. Rs. H. viii. ...... Rec d of John Ford in full payment of my londes in Devon for this yere now endyd the v day of November by acquittaunce del' 1 . Item rec d of. Cokkes of Burton in full payment Item rec d of Lafbarowe rent & Bradftone rent at the accompt xj/. \js. xd.-y rec. lxvjj. viij^. 297 £ / Xllj Ij The cofies of me Sir Adrian Fortefcu knight from my commyttyng to the Marfchalles ward at W adjlok the Saturday beyng the xxix day of Augufl A", xxyj'". R. Rs. H. viij. Tewyfday the firft day of Sep- tember Item firft paid for horflchoyng at Watlyngton Item p' 1 for my fervauntes dener & horfmete at Woodftok y' day Item gevyn for hous rome at Sygewykes to fchifFte me y en . Item gevyn to Vaughan the grome of the Kynges chamber, that came to me to Schirburn .... Item p d for my coftes at Thame that Saturday at night Item p' 1 to a man that was fent to fetch me ageyn back to Woodftok Sc to Sir Tho. Wentworthes fervaunt Item gevyn to Segewykes wife ageyn for rome at Wodftok Item for my fervauntes coftes & hors mete ther than Item p' 1 for my coftes at Thame on Sonday at night Item gevyn to the prefte to fay mafle ij days at my inne Item gevyn by my wife to Sir Thomas Wentworths fervaunt Ric Item pd. for my coftes at Uxbridge on Monday at night Item p' 1 for bote hyer to my lodgyng Sc Southwark . Item p' 1 for truffyng cord for to trufle my beddes . Item p' 1 for caryyng my gere over by bote . Item p d for my dener at my lodgyng in London Item p' 1 for a qrte of wyne on Wednefday at dener Item p' 1 than for x fagottes i'u]d. for ij lb candilles 'ri'y/. Item p' 1 for bote hyer of my fervauntes in to London & ageyn Item p d for I. Hawcliffe's coftes to Wykm & fo to London Item gevyn for caryyng a letter to y l Warden of Bradeftone Item p d for wyne on Saturday at night & peres and bere Item p d for wyne on Sonday & peres Item gevyn to Robyn for bryngyng venyfon & a fardell Q Q xvnj xvj xij VIIJ VJ V11J 'J ix iiij VI lj XVJ XX V xij •j vij j xxiij 'j V J xvj xvj 298 Family of Salden . £ s. d. Item del' 1 to Sir Tho. Wentworth for to be reckenid in my charges \ ^ & fees the ix day of Sept. . . . . . / Item p d for my foper on Thorefday with M'. Whitton . . ij vij Item p d for ij lb candilles on Friday for my chambr . . iji- Item p d for bote hyer of me & my fervauntes on Thorefday . iij Item p d for wyne & nottes on Sonday and holy rede day in all with | parte therof gevyn to M r . prior at my ij fopers with hym than j Sum iiij/. xvs. vii]±d. Item del d to Ric. Wentworth, fervaunt to Sir T. Wentworth, k' the xv day of September to be rekenyd in my charges Item p d for xx faggottes on Wednefday & the cariage '.} Item p d for wyne & peres on Fryday for M r . Spencer & his wife & \ oyers . . . . . . . ( tworth k\ the \ xx X.j XX Vlj XX xxj day of Sept. to be reckenyd in my charges Item p d to Rob. caryar for bryngyng letters from my wyfe . . viij Item p d for wyne & peres to Thorefday .... viij Item p d for candilles on Thorefday ..... i^ Item p d for c.c. of byllettes xviij^. xxv fagottes xd. & the bote caryage & bryngyng up iij^. ..... Item p d for my bote hyer iij^. & for wyne to Monday viiji. . xj Item gevyn to M r . Priores porter to fee the next houfe . . iiij Item p d for candilles & botehyer on Mighelmas day . . iij Item gevyn to Dolphyn for bryngyng letters on Mighelmas day . viij Item del d to Ric. Wentworth fervaunt to Sir Thomas Wentworth k 1 the laft day of September to be reckenid in my charges Item p d for my wyfes coftes with iiij fervaunts & iij horfes at Lon- •> don from Thorefday at afternone to Monday in the mornyng in V xxxj ix| p d . all befydes hir baytyng at Colbroke the v day of 0£t. . • ) Item p d for candilles & bote hyer on Monday . . . iiij Item p d to Robyn for brynkyng peres to me from M 1 . Tefdale . vj Item del d to Ric. Wentworth fervaunt to Sir Thomas Wentworth kt. ) xx the vj th day of October to be reckenid in my charges . . 1 total vj/. del d Item p d to Sir Thomas Wentworthes fervauntes for goyng iij tymys \ with me to my houfe . . . . . . J Item gevyn to Ric. Wentworth a lyon and a colar . . . xij Item gevyn to M r . Undermarfchell to hir fervauntes mariage ofFeryng viij M d . — Sir Tho. Wentworth kt. Marfchell rode northeward on & after none the viij day of October A 0 . xxvj'°. R. Rs. H. viij. & fo from thensforth I bordyd my felf and provydyd for al manner of necefiariis for my felf my wyfFe my fervauntes and for al other in the hous ther at my charge as it aperith in the houfhold boke ther entrid & writyn at the defyer& requeft of the fame Sir Thomas & fo contenued duryng the tyme of my beyng in his ward & cuftodye. Sir Adrian Fortefcue. , Sir Adrian Fortefcu bis bord y his fervauntes to be rekenid & p d to Sir Thomas Wentworth knight mar/hall. Inprimis the faid Sir Adrian his bord from the fyrft day of Septem- > ber to the ix day of October which is fyve wekes & ij days for V liij iiij every week xs. fum . . . . . . ' Item for Tho. Honychirches bord fyve wekes & ij days for every ) , , \ \ xvij vuj weke \\)s. \\\)d. fum ...... / Item for John Hawcliff his bord iij wekes for evry weke iijj. \\\)d. fum . . . iiij/. xij the deth of Edm. Wykes Efq. . . . . f Item p d for vj woodcokkes fent to M r . B. with a fatt capon . ij viij Item for bryngyng a letter from Henley fent from Bradftone . iiij Item p d for my Cofyn Fortefcu his bote hyer iij tymys . . xij Item gevyn on Schroff Sonday to Ric. Hall for his coftes home . xx Item p d for the a£tes of this laft parlement ... vij [On a fmall flip.] Layd owtt by me. It. for fichefs Sc other thynges vij;. vd. It. for vij elles of clothe for yor fchertes viij j. lid. It. for bokeram for my felff for nyght rails iijx. It. for v elles off clothe for Auften iij;. ixd. It. for botte hyre to dayes x]d. It. to the mayd for vj wekes ijj. It. for viij elles of canvas iij;. iiij*/. Sum xxviijj. \ud. At Abendon A. xxix R. Rs. H. viij the xiiij day of Marche. Item p d for the marble tombe & the gret marble ftone & faynt Peter i & St. Powles images in all . . . . / Item paid for the carrayge of a gret marbelftone Item p d for the carrayge of the tombe wher of was iij lodys Item p d . to the mafons for brekyng up of the tombe & for the Iabar- reers to helpe to lode the ftonys Item p d for mendyng of a fled Item p d to the Mafter mafon by promys Item for my denar Wenfday Item for my horfe mete Item fpent by fydes Item layd in ernyuft for the tombe Item payd for the carrayge of Peter & Poulle Item for my denar Thurfday \\)d. Item for my foper \\)d. Item for my denar iij^. Fryday & Item fpent byfydes \\)d. Item for my horfemete Thurfday & Fryday Sum\ xxix;. \)d. p d xx 304 Family of Salden. Endorfed.J — Mem d delyward to Wm. Wykes dwellyng in Abynton at the fyne of the whytte harte xix pefys of marbel befydes the upper ftone of the tombe that ys in v pefys & a gret layftone of ix fote Sc a halfe longe & iij fote & a halfe brode Sir Adrian Fortefcue, K'. A marble tombe & a nother gret lay ftone of marble bought at the pullyng down of Abenden Abbey chirch the xiiij day of Marche A°. xxix R. Rs. H. viij. • B. The Inventorie of all moveable and vnmoveable perteignynge to Sir Adrian Fojkewes howfe made the xviij daye of Februarie, in the xxx He yere of the Reigne of ow r Sou r aigne lord kinge Henry the viij" 1 } Furfte a Bafon and Ewe r filv r and parcell gilt, the Bafon havinge armes in the bottome. Itm twoo pottes filver and parcell gilt havinge like armes in the buflcell. Itm twoo litle faltes filver and parcell gilt w\ one cover havinge a Roman A apon the toppe. Itm vj fmale crufes filver and parcell gilt w' one cove r wherof one lakethe an handle all plaine. Itm one oither crufe w' a cove r filver and parcell gilt chafed. Itm twoo faire faltes w 1 one cove r filver and parcell gilt beinge viij fquares of dyverfe fortes. Itm a noither bafon and Ewer filver and parcell gilt The bafon havinge the fonne in the bottome. Itm a fmale cuppe glafle fafhion w' a cove' filver and parcell gilt wethen. Itm xij fpones filver having maiden heddes at the endes gilt. Itm xij oither fpones filver and knoppes at the endes gilt. White Plate. Furft iij Goblettes w' one cove r playne all filver and not gilt. Itrn one fmale crufe w 1 a cover playne and white. Itm xij fpones filver and flipped at thendes. Itm a litill peice like a cuppe of aflay white. Itm xij fpones white w' fpere poynte. Itm vj other fpones w* woode howfes at thende gilt. Gilt plate. Furfte iij goblettes filver an of gilt w 1 one cove r all thre pounfede w l armes in the buflcell of the cover. Itm iij oither goblettes filver and gilt w 4 one cover and all chafed w l flower de luces and oither wilde flowers havinge S' Adrian Foikewes armes apon the cover. Itm a ftondinge cuppe w 1 a cov r all gilt havynge a Garland aboute the cove 1 " of Roofes and braunches. Itm an oither ftandinge cuppe w' a cove r all gilt w< a bofle in the bottome. Itm an noither ftonding cuppe w* a cover all gilt beinge pownfed w l wilde flowers. Itm an noither ftondynge cuppe w l a cove r all gilt and chafed. Itin an noither ftanding cuppe w* a cove 1 " all gilt beynge playne. Cotton MS. Appendix, xxviii. fo. 171. Sir Adrian Fortefcue. Itm an ale crufe w' ij eres, and a cover all gilt, and apon the cover a knoppe w 1 a roofe pownfede. Itm ij fmale faltes w' one cove 1 " all gilt w l a pounde garnett graiven on the toppe. Itm thre gilt fpones flippede at thendes. Itm a noither ftandynge cuppe w* a cover all gilt beinge playne. In the further howfe next the garner. Furft a greate coffer w* ij lokkes bownde w' yron and in the fame a fperver of blewe and yelowe farcenet w' courteyns. Itm a fperve r of tawny chamlett and blak farcynet w' courteyns torne. Itm vij peices of greine verdures lyned w' canvas. Itm a fyne verders counterpoynte. Itm a noither fyne verders counterpoyte w' the armes of Flaunders. Itm a newe verders cupberde carpet. Itm iiij newe longe varders carpettes for wyndowfe. Itm a longe benche varders carpett lyned w' canvas. Itm thre large counterpoynts w' Imagery of tapeftry of dyverfe fortes. Itm vj fhorte carpettes for cupberdes of turkye worke. Itm ij longe chapell carpettes cowfhens lyned w' lether. Itm iij fquare carpette coufhyns of dyverfe fortes. Itfh iij qufshens of cruell and nedle worke. Itin a fyne large carpett of turkey worke w' beiftes. Itm a fteynede lynen clothe for a bed. In the greate Coffer u/ on lokk ther. Itm dyverfe parcelles of redde greine and yellowc faye for hangynge of chambers. In a no ther coffer ther. Itm a xj pillowes of downe covered fome w 1 fuftyan and fome w' tike. In the Wardroppe. Furft a hangynge of greine fay fteyned. Itm a fperver w' courteyns of darnek. Itm a feither bed a bolfter ij blankettes a torne counterpoynte of Imagery a mattres and a bedfted. In the greate cipres chei/i ther. Itm a counterpoynte ot vardures w' beftes courfe. Itm a courfe counterpoynte of tapeftry w' ymagery. Itm a greate feler and tefter of payned fay redd greine and white. Itm vj cowfhens of yellowe varders. Itm a longe carpett of greine varders. Itm a olde cradle clothe of tapeftry w' Imagery. R R 3° 6 Family of Said en. Itm a feler and a tefter of Sattyn a brigges and thre courteynes of red and ruflett farcynet. Itm ij fuftyan blankettes and a counterpoynt of paned verders. Itm a Tefter and ij courteynes of greine and yellowe Frenche faye. In a greate joyned prejfe ther. Itm dyverfe peices of the maydens weringe gere. Itm in a nother litell cheift a horfe harnes for a gentill wooman. Itm in a greate ftonderde ther bownde w' yron a gowen of ruffett velvett, furred w l martons and a gowen of blake velvet lyned w' fattyn blake. Itm an olde flemifhe chare. In the Entry. Itm an olde pair of virginalles and one olde cheift w' a mane booke, and dyvers thynges belongynge to a Chapell. In the greate Chamber at the neither ende of the ha lie. Furft a hangynge of greine and red fay panede. Item one greate truffinge bed w 4 ij feitherbedes, whe r of thone is downe withe ij bolfters and ij pillowes of downe. Itm thre blankettes of woollen clothe. Itm a coverlett of vardure woork vnlyned. Itm a mantill of redde. Itm a fmall truftynge bed and a feitherbed, apon the fame covered w' fuftyan and a bolfter to the fame w' a mattres. Itm a pair of blankettes one double, thother fingle. Itm an olde coverlett of tapeftry worke with Images and an olde red mantill. Itm a truckell bed w' a feitherbed and a mattres, ij bolfters, iij blankettes, and a courfe coverlett of tapeftry and a fperver w ( courteyns of blewe bokkeram. Itm a wyned cupberd w 1 a counterfett carpet apon it. Itm a fhorte table joyned w' a courfe carpet. Itm ij cheiftes bownde w 1 ' yron whe r in is xij pair of canvas fheites and ij lynen aulter clothes w 1 a furplice for a preift. Itm iij olde cufhyns and a olde flemifhe chaire and a turned chaire, and thre olde cheiftes. Itm twoo Awndyerns a fyer pan, and a pair of tonges. Itm a chafer of braffe w' twoo bafons, and one chamber pott of pewter. Itm ij joynede ftolles. In the Inner Chambr. Fuft ij bedftedes w l ij feither bedes, ij bolfters and iij blankettes and twoo courfe coverlettes an olde tefture of darnyx and a noither of olde white lynen. The lynnyng Itm an olde greate coffer w' ij lokkes xx pair of canvas fheites iiij pair of fyne fheites iiij pair of pillowbers iiij dyaper table clothes, iiij dyaper towelles, ij dofen of diaper napkyns, and twoo dofyne of playne napkyns, ij fyne table clothes, iiij fyne playne copberde clothes, vj playne towelles, ij longe hall borde clothes courfe. Itm an old fhipe cheift bownde w l yron. Sir Adrian Forte/cue. 307 In the brufshynge howfe. Itm dyverfe olde cheiftes w 1 trumpery ware. In the halle. Itm a hangynge of greine fey bordered w l darnexe, ij greate fide tables w" ftandinge treflels. Itm a fmale joyned cupberde of waynfcott, and a fhorte peice of counterfett carpett apon it. Itm a fquare cupberd and a Jarge peice of counterfett carpett upon it/ a fhorte peice of carpett in the wyndowe/ and v formes w* ij candle plates. In the perler. Itm a hangynge of greine fay and red panede. Itm a table w 1 ij treftilles and a greine verders carpett apon it olde/ iiij olde greyne vardre cufshins, a joyned cupberd and a nolde carpett apon it. An o'de peice of vardres carpett in the wyndowe and a pece of counterfet carpet in the oithe' wyndowe and one flemifhe chaire iiij joyned frolles, a joyned forme/ a wyker flcryne, ij lardge awndyerns, a fyer forke/ a fyre pan, a pair of tonges. Itm a lowe joyned ftole, ij joyned foote ftoles a rownde table of Cipres, and a pece of counterfet carpett apon it. Itm a peynted table of the epiphany of o r lord. The Chambr over the perlar. Fuft a hangynge of red and greine fay panede. I tin a fperver of greine and blak fey with courteyns of the fame. A truffynge bed framed of weynlkott, ij feitherbedes, one greate bolfter, ij fuftyans, ij pillows of downe, a large counterpoynt of greate verders, ij joyned formes, a turned chair, and a joyned cupberd w" a counterfett carpett apon it. Itm a wyndowe clothe of panede fey, ij fmale awndierns, a pairc of tonges. Itm a greate ftandarde w' dyvcrs appairell belongynge to the lady Kofkewe. In the Inne r Chambr ther. Itm a hangynge of ftayned clothe a fperver of blewe bokkeram a bedfteid, a mattres, a feitherbed, ij litle bowlfters, ij olde blankettes and an olde coverlett. In the Cellar. Itm a coupberde, and a awmery of heire, an oilier bord and dyverfe olde bottelles. In the buttery. Item ij bafons and ij ewars of pewter, a latten fhavinge bafon xij greate candcllftickes, viij fmalle candellftickes dyverfe lether pottes and bottelles, a joyned frame to fett cuppes apon, a brede byn, and dyverfe olde tubbes. Itm vj table clothes of dyverfe fortes, iiij cupberde clothes and xxx plaine napkyns iiij plaine towelles. 3 o8 Family of Salden. In the butlars chambr. Fuft, a feithe r bed, a bolfter, ij blankettes, and a coverlett, a piece of red fey for a tefter and a table w* treftilles. The preijies chambr. Itm a hangynge of ftayned clothe and a tefture of the fame ij feitherbedes and a bolfter, a mattres, thre blankettes and an olde counterpoynte of red and yelowe vardres a pillowe of downe, a joyned ftole. In the lowe perlar. Itm a hangynge of greine and red fay panede, a fperver of lynnen, a bedfteid, ij feitherbedes ij bolfters, a mattres, ij blankettes, ij olde counterpoyntes, of tapeftry, ij pillowes of downe, a turned chaire a longe cupberde w 1 a pece of counterfett carpett apon it, a fhorte table w l twoo treftilles, a joyned ftolle and an olde forme. The horfe keepers chambre. Itm iij olde bedefteids, v olde mattres and x bolfters iij blankettes and v olde coverlettes of dyverfe fortes. In the next chambr . Itm iij be''fteides, thre feitherbedes, ij blankettes, iij olde coverlettes, iij bolfters, one fparver bokkeram panede white and blewe, and one tefter of lynnen, and a noither of paynted clothe. In the cooke's chambr. I tin a bedfted, a feitherbed, and a bolfter, ij blankettes, ij coverlettes and in the next chambr dyvers olde bordes and trafshe. In the chamberlyns chambr. Itm a bedefteide, a feitherbed, a mattres, a bolfter, ij blankettes, ij olde coverlettes and a tefter of blewe bukkeram olde. In the kechyn. Furft xviij platters, xviij difhes and xviij fawcers and one charger of the beft forte. Itm xviij platters, xviij fawcers, w l xviij dimes of the courfe forte. Itm vj brafle pottes greate and fmale, vj panns greate and fmale, one ketill fmale, a poffenett, a laten ladle w' a fkommer, a chaftynge difhe, a pewter collenda r , a pewter potte for verioce, vj broches greate and fmale, ij drippynge pannes and a gredeyron, ij fryenge pannes, a flefhe hooke, ij greate yron Rakkes, iij potte Rackes, iij pair of pott howkes, thre yron dogges to ley on woode, a greate brafon mortter w 1 a yron peftill', a litle brafon morter/ w' the peftill. A ftonne morter and a wodden peftle a ftrikynge knyffand ij fmale knyfes, a fyer fhull, thre tryvettes greate and fmall, a fleftie axe, a wode axe, three yron wegges, dyverfe trayes, a muftard querne w' a ftaffe, a brafen chaffer and a grydynge ftonge w* an oron handle, and dyverfe oither olde tubbes. In the larder. Itm a bryne tubbe, a powderynge trowghe w' a cover and oither dyvers neceffaries. Sir Adrian Forte/cue. In the bultinge howje. Itm a knedinge trowghe and oither neceflaries belongynge to the fame. In the fyjhe howfe. Furfte, dyverfe lynges, haberdens, and ftokke fifhe as is for the provifion for the howfe w' white hearyng and red. Itin xvi'j boz of thatcheis. In the garner. Itm in Oites by eftimacon ........ viij qtrs. Itm in make made and unmade ....... ix qrtfs. Itm in wheite threfshede ........ iij (jrtrs. In the Barnes. Itm in one barne ij beye of whete vnthrefshed and a parcell' of hey in the oither ende. Itm in the oither barne peafe ftrawe and barley ftrawe. In the Carters Jiable. Itm one thille horfe and viij oxen for a carte. Itm ij cartes fliowed and all maner of harneis for the fame cartes the horfe and oxen. Catall. Itm vj kyne and ij weners. Itm one bore and thurteyne hogges. Itm one Catery horfe, and ij horfes for the fadlc thone baye thoither blak. In the olde howfe befules the buttery. Furft dyverfe olde tubbes, bolles and crufes with oither neceflaries. In the brewe houfe. Itm a furnes and three faates more and lefle, and a thinge to kele worke in dyverfe tubbes, and kylderkyns with oither neceflaries. Att S r . Adrian Fojkewes loging beftdes the black Freers in London. Furfte in the perlar ther a hangynge of yelowe and greine fay panede. Itm a cupberde with a flemifhe chaire. Itin a longe table w' ij treftilles. Itni vj joynede ftalles. Itin a litle pece of fay hangynge before the wyndowe yelowe and greine panede. Itm a longe fetell. Itm ij awndyerns and a fyer forke w' a pair of tonges. Itm a pair of tables. 3io Family of Salden. In the buttery. Itm a dofen platters, a dofen dimes w* a dofen fawcers, a chafynge difhe ix candell ftickes, greate and fmale, ij quarte pewter pottes, a pottell pott of pewter and a pynte wyne pott pewter. Itm a bafon and Ewer of pewter. Itm a rownde wasfhinge bafon, a brafen morter w' a peftill. Itm a pair of Rackes w' dyvers bordes, bafkettes, crufes and oither trafhe. Itm ij bredde bynnes withe covers. In the hawk. Itm twoo peices of ftayned clothe. Itm a longe table w' twoo treftilles w* a fhorte joyned forme. In the kechyn. Itm iiij pottes greate and fmale, ij pannes, one biggar and a noither leffar, a gredyern, a frienge pan, a dryppinge pan, a longe fpitt, and a birde fpitt, ij clevinge knyffes w' dyverfe olde bordes and trafhe. Itm ij Tryvettes one byggar and a noither lefTer. In a chambr over the kechyn. Itiii a bedeftede, a fetherbed, a bolfter w* a pillowe and an olde white coverlett. Itm a pair of blankettes. In the Jlreite chamber. Itm a bedefteide w' dyverfe olde bordes and trafhe. In the Study chambr. Item a litill peice of ftaynede hangynge. Item a litill borde covered w' greine cotten. Item a chaire. Item a cheft w' one lokk w' dyvers writynges. In the chamber at the Jlere hedde. Item a bedefted with a feithe 1 bed, a bolfter, a pillowe, a pair blankettes, a redd, coverlett w' the fparver of greine fay and courteyns of the fame. Itm a chefte w 4 one lokke w' writynges in hit. Itm the hanginge of greine fay. Itm ij fmalle awndierns a cupbord w l a counterfett carpett apon it. In S r . Adrian Fojkewes owen Chamber. Itm a truffynge bedde, a feither bed, and a mattres, a bolfter a pair of blankettes a coverynge of vardures. Itm a fperver w* courtaynes to the fame of yellowe and greine tuke. Itm the hangynges of red fay. Sir Adrian Forte/cue. Itm ij awndiarnes w* a pair of tonges, a chair, a joyned forme a chefte at the beddes feete w' writinges. Itra a cheft of napery ther. Itm nyne courfe fheites for ferv a untes, ij pair of fyne fheites, vj olde towelles, iiij table clothes ij cupbord clothes, iij fyne napkyns olde and x courfe olde napkyns, iij fyne pillowbers w l olde tome fheites. In the Inner Chambr. Itifi a bedefted, with a feitherbed,a bolfter, a pair of blanketes a white coverlett, a pre(Te,a chefte bownde w* yron w 1 apparel belongynge to his owen body in hit as, a velvet gowen blacke furred w* martans, a chamlett gowne black welted with velvet, and furred w' lambe a doublett of blake fattyn, a Jackett of blake fatten a pair of blak hoofe w' a fheite to wrappe the gere in. Itm a longe counterfett carpett for the perlar w' fyve fhorte ones of the fame for cupbordes. Itm viij carpett cowfshens. Itm thre pair of newe girthes double. Itm a fparver of olde lynnen clothe. In the Cellar. Itm a fewe billittes w' dyvers olde bordes and trafhe. Itfn at M'. Maddox howfe in cheipefide a chefte with Evidences. Endorfed — The Inventorie of S r . Adrian Fortefcues goodes. Articles of Plate claimed by the King — a.d. i 538. 1 fol 10. (1.) Hereafte' enfuith all thos parcells of plate and Juells of Silver that hath ben delyv'ed unto the kings maieftie fithen* the firft day of Otftobr in the xxx' 1 yere of his maieftics reigne, by John Williams Maifter and Treafurer of his grac' Jewells Receyved by the fame John to his faid maielties ufe of dyv'fe and fondry furrendered monafteries. Sjnter alia.'] fol. 12. Item delivered unto his maieftie the xxviij' 1 daie of June ij bafons and ij Ewers ncell gilte wherof thone weithe iiij vij oz and thother Lxxvij oz pcell of fuche ftuft" as came to thufe of his faide maieftie by thattender of Sr Adrian ftortefcuc knight weinge togeithers one hundrede three fcore and foure vnecs Sina . . . CLxiiij. oz. Itm delivered more unto his maieftie the fame daie of the faide Sr Adrian ffor- tefcues ftuft ij pottf jjcell gilte weinge togethcrs foure fcore and foure vnecs Sina . iiij. iiij. oz. From Bodleian Library MS. e Mufeo, 57. 3 I2 Family of Salden. CHAPTER XIV. The Forte/cues of Salden continued. The Right Honourable Sir John Fortescue. OHN FORTESCUE, the eldeft fon of Sir Adrian, was born early in the year 1533, either at Stonor or Shirburn, in Oxfordshire. He himfelf relates that he came into the world in the fame year as Queen Elizabeth, about fix months before her. 1 His mother, as will be remembered, was Sir Adrian's fecond wife Anne, daughter of Sir William Rede of Boarftall. His father's execution having taken place when he was only eight years old, he was brought up under his mother's care and direction ; though we do not know from whom he learned the rudiments of Latin and Greek, languages in which he afterwards excelled. He is faid to have gone to Oxford, and he finifhed his education at one of the Inns of Court. 2 In the Statute Book for the 5th and 6th of Edward VI. we find an Act for his " Reftitu- tion in blood " to remove the effects of his father's attainder ; and the Lords' Journals for 1552 record the paffing of the Act in that year. He was foon after chofen to be preceptor to the Princefs Elizabeth, being recommended to her by the Earl of Hertford, and poffibly affifted by his own relationfhip to the Princefs through the Boleyns. 3 He was much trufted and confulted by Elizabeth, and upon her acceffion to the throne (he kept him about her by at once naming him her " Matter or Keeper of the Great Ward- robe, an office of great antiquity and dignity," 4 which he held until her death. His appointment bears date July 22, 1559, m tne Y ear °f tne rel g n - 5 " The King's Great Wardrobe " at that time was in the Blackfriars, and in it were kept, fays Fuller, " the ancient clothes of our Englifh Kings which they wore on great feftivals ; fo that this wardrobe was in effect a library for antiquaries therein to read the mode and fafhion of garments in all ages." 6 It was alfo a depofitory tc for the fecret writings and 1 Lord Northampton's Letters to Earl of Marr, quoted in Bucks Records, vol. i. Elizabeth was born at Greenwich, September 17th, 1533. 2 Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, vol. iii. 346. His name, however, does not appear in Hearne's carefully made MS. regifter of graduates from 1505 to 1659, containing about 20,000 names. 3 Lodge. 4 Beatfon's Political Index, i. p. v. 6 Patent Rolls, l Elizabeth. 6 Cunningham's Handbook of London. §11 J Dim TOTjBSU"0 ( Chancellor of the Evekequer to Queen Eli* Sir John Forte/cue. 313 letters touching the ftate of the realm which were wont to be there enrolled ; and not in the Chancery, as appeareth by the Records." 1 Stow writes alfo, " Here was of late years lodged Sir John Fortefcue, Knight, Mafter of the Wardrobe, Chancellor and Under Treafurer of the Exchequer, and one of her Majefty's Privy Council," fhowing that he ftill lived in Blackfriars after his promotion to higher offices as well as before it. The refidence was defcribed by Sir John as « my houfe at the Standing Wardrobe near Carter Lane." 2 The " Standing Wardrobe " was a term to diftinguifh the houfe and office in Blackfriars from the " Removing Wardrobes " eftablifhed in various places for the fervice of the Court. He did not upon receiving this appointment ceafe to direcl the Queen's ftudies, but continued to prefide over them long afterwards ; 3 thus occafioning the quaint remark of Lloyd that Sir John Fortefcue was "one whom me trufted with the ornaments of her foul and body." 4 He appears by his prudence to have early begun to increafe the eftate which he had inherited from his father; for in 1559 the Patent Rolls contain a licence to Sir Thomas Parry, Knight to alienate the fite of the manor, &c, of Salden in Bucks to John Fortefcue, Efquire, and others ; 3 the purchafe of the whole property, however, was not com- pleted, according to Lipfcomb and Brown Willis, before 1580. In the next year (1560) the Queen, as a mark of favour, gives him the keeperfhip of Cornbury Park in Oxfordfhire," with its right of grazing, herbage, and pannage, {llerba- gium et pannagium.) Sir John was married before his appointment to the wardrobe, hardly later than 1556. His wife was Cicely, daughter and co-heir of Sir Edmund Afhfield of Ewelme, in Oxford- fhire, and afterwards in right of his wife, of Tattenhoe in Bucks. She was the youngeft of three daughters, the eldeft being Avice, married to Edmund Lee of Pichelftbourne in Bucks ; and the fecond, Elizabeth, wife of William Fettyplace of Childrey, Bucks, whofe grandfather Anthony Fettyplace of Childrey, Efquire of the Body to Henry VII., had married Mary Fortefcue Sir Adrian's fifter, and widow of John Stonor of Stonor. By this lady, Sir John at her father's death in 1577 became poflefTed of Shenley, Snellfhall Priory, 7 and of other parts of Sir Edmund Afhfield's eftates in Buckinghamfhire in the neighbour- hood of his own eftates at Salden. 1 Stow's Survey of London, vol. i. Hook iii., page 224, " Parifh of St. Andrew Wardrobe." 2 Letter from Sir J. Fortefcue to John Pare, Feb. 2, 1590, in Ilarl. MS. 3 Camden's Annates Rerum Ang. Reg. Eliz., by Hearne, vol. iii. 6 1 3, 1 589. " Libcralibus Rcginac ftudiis et Regiac fynthefi five Garderoba? diu pracfuerat." 4 Lloyd's State Worthies, vol. i. p. 442. 8 Pat. Rolls, 1 and 16 Fliz. 6 Pat. Rolls, 2 Eliz. 7 Lipfcomb, iii. 506, and iv. 32-. S S Family of Salden. The Queen's confidence in Sir John does not appear to have been fhaken by the rafh conduct at this time of his brother Sir Anthony, who, as will be feen, was a leading con- fpirator with the Poles in their plot againft her. His efcape with imprifonment, inftead of lofing his head, has been generally attributed to Sir John's interceflion with his Royal miftrefs. In 1570 he had the misfortune to lofe his wife after fhe had borne him nine children. She died on the 7 th of February in her thirtieth year, and was buried in the church of Murfly, the parifh in which Salden ftood. 1 Of her nine children three died before her. As her hufband was thirty-feven years later laid in the fame tomb, we will give its defcription and epitaphs when we record his death. There is a Patent Roll, in 1573, granting him "free warren in all the lands of the manor of Salden in the county of Buckingham for ever." 2 He had fome years before, in 1562, 3 obtained from the Queen for 423/. is. 4^., a grant for ever of the neighbouring manor of Drayton-Parflow (fo called from Ralph de Pafla- aqua, or Pafle-l'eau, who held it foon after the Conqueft), with the advowfon of the Rectory there. Befides thefe acquifitions in Buckinghamshire, he added the manor of Swyncombe to his patrimony in Oxfordfhire ; obtaining from the crown in 1565 a leafe of it for twenty-one years from 1575, for 9/. per annum rent, which leafe was twice renewed; the laft time for fixty years from 1596; 4 alfo "the fite of the manor of Cadwallo," in the fame county. 5 Fortefcue being now fettled upon his purchafed eftate in Bucks, and living in the old manfion which he found at Salden, a feud arifes between him and his principal neighbour Lord Grey of Wilton, fi the owner of Whaddon Hall, and Keeper of the Chafe and Park, which almoft coft him his life. There is a full and minute account of the circumftances of the quarrel in the State Papers of the period. It mows us fo much of Sir John's character, and of the mode of life which he and others followed in the rural parts of England three hundred years ago, that I give it here at length. 7 Complaint by Mr. John Fortefcue againft Lord Grey, and his men, for hunting within his Manor of Salden, and of the "uncivil" language of Lord Grey to him in the Prefence Chamber. About three years part, upon diforder of my Lord Grey's fervants for hunting my warren, breaking my hedges, and difturbance of mine inheritance at Salden, I came, at Weftminfter, in the chamber of 1 See her monument. 2 Pat. Rolls, 16 Eliz. 3 Lipfcomb, iii. 339, and Pat. Rolls, 4 Eliz. 4 Napier's Swyncombe, pp. 207, 208, 209. N.B. — The fecond leafe in January 24, 1 582, is to J. F. and Alice his wife, mowing that he had married again before that date. Napier quotes "Land Revenue Record Office " for this date, and Pat. Rolls, 7 Eliz. s Pat. Rolls, 7 Eliz., May 22. 6 Lipfcomb, iii. 496. 7 s ee Napier's Swyncombe, p. 390. Sir "John Fortefcue. 3 1 5 Prefence, to the Lord Grey, and defired his Lordfhip that " he would take order with his fervants, and keepers of Whaddon Chafe [in Buckinghamfhire], that they would not injurie me in my lawful right ; and ufe thefe oppreffions upon his Lordfhip's poor neighbour, and always to my power his well-willer : " whereunto he, fomewhat moved, anfwered, that he " had done nothing, but that of right he might, and that they fhould hunt," with other hoole 1 fpeech to the like purpofe. I then replied, " It was mine inheritance, and place of habitation," and therefore "defired his Lordfhip that, with his good favour, I might enjoy fuch grants of free warren, as I had in mine own, which I meant not to lofe, fo long as law ferved." My Lord therewith in a choller faid, "Tufh, a Lord in your teeth, I will hunt it, and it fhall be hunted in fpite of all you can do." I, therewith moved, faid, that " his uncivil fpeech were unfit for that place and his honour, and that I took fome fcorn therewith, befides that I might juftly think many good offices of good-will on him beftowed, very evil placed to find this recompenfe." The Lord Grey then faid, " I know Mr. Fortefcue well enough ; " and I anfwered, " So do I alfo know the Lord Grey : " and fo we departed at that time. Two days after, the Lord Grey came to me in the fame place, and faid, "Mr. Fortefcue, I would gladly fpeak with you, if you go afide with me." I anfwered, " I would wait upon his Lordfhip." We then went into the gallery in the backfide of the Queen's Lodging at Weftminirer, where he faid unto me, "Mr. Fortefcue, you the other day feemed to be much oft'ended, and Irirrcd in fpeech ; I marvel thereat." " My Lord," I anfwered, ** my requefl to enjoy my own, by you denied, together with your injurious fpeeches, were caufe to ftir any man, I think.'' " I ufud," faid the Lord Grey, "no evil fpeech unto you." Then I charged him with his words, which in part my Lord denied, and in the whole qualified, faying, that he "tendered the friendfhip of Sir Edmund Afhfield, and me, as much as any gentlemen's in the fhire." Whereunto I anfwered, that " he had, and fhould find us, as ready to do him honour." He requefted that M I fhould not be an evil neighbour to the game." I anfwered, that "I would not myfelf, nor that no fervant of mine lhould hunt my grounds, nor yet fufFer any Purley men to hunt them at any time." And fo we departed, all griefs fatisfied, as to me then did feem ; and the faid grounds have never been hunted by me fythcncc, nor any of my fervants. On the Monday, I2th of Auguft, I, finding the keeper Wynton his boy, hunting my grounds namely, Rie Clofe, difcharged him of that doing, and required that he, nor any other of the fervants of the Lord Grey, fhould intromit with my warren grounds, in which I itood fcifed, as by divers grants might at large appear, and therefore I required this to be taken as a warning. On the next morrow, being Tuefday, John Savage, Ranger under the Lord Grey, came to my houfe, complaining of the interruption made to Wynton's boy. To whom I anfwered, that " I was, and always would be, good friend to my Lord, and his, in all might lie in my power ; and further prayed him, that neither by his means, nor any other of his fellows, occafion might be miniitcred of breach of the good-will and friendfhip I had borne, and profefled by all means to bear unto my Lord Grey, nor that they would offer me the injury to hunt my warren, and difiurb my pofl'eflion, oppreffing me in my own feveral grounds." Whereunto he anfwered, " He had, would, and muft hunt." I replied, that " I had grant to the contrary, and it was my warren, whereof he might be afl'ured, if he would credit me." And further, I aiked, " To what end he would hunt, or interrupt my pofleffion in mine own ? and whether I had been a good neighbour or no to the Chace ? " which part he granted l Whole. 3 i6 Family of Said en. I had, and all my fervants. Then, I added, "What if, when you hunt, and I do ftand up with bows and dogs, and flay your deer, may I not fo lawfully do ? " which he alfo granted. " Then tendeth your hunting to fmall purpofe. Yet, neverthelefs, if you will thereunto agree, for that I honour my Lord, and feek quietnefs, I will be contented, until my Lord return, to forbear mine own commodities, and neither myfelf, nor any Purley men, mall hunt any of my grounds, fo that you and your's will be contented with the fame offer. " Wherewith he feemed fatisfied, and fo we came in to breakfaft, he faying to me, he would " go to Layton, and thence to Sheldon, his fair in Worcefterfhire, on Thurf- day following : " and fo, after divers fpeeches, and proofs of the boy's lying tales, we went into the Hall, where we break our faft ; and I defired Savage to be no ftranger at Salden, which he promifed not to be : and fo we departed, fatisfied, as I fuppofed, in all points. On the Wednefday afternoon, I, finding the keeper's boy not only hunting, but alfo to have broken divers gaps, and plodding at my conies, firft, having caufed his hounds to be rated, I commanded him to depart, together with Birde (Savage's man), in his company ; Whereupon, the boy, giving not only lewde words, but alfo threats, I pulled a horn from his neck, and offered with the firing to have given him a jerke. But, perceiving his fellow neftling himfelf towards me, with the horn I gave him a blow ; and fo, cafting the boy's horn again unto him, I willed them to depart my ground with fpeed ; and, crofling the clofe to the path, I met with Wynton, whom " I charged with his injurious dealings, and that he feemed to make my warren, chafe, or at the leaft common." He anfwered, he came "to make home deer." Whereunto I faid, " Although it be wholly untrue, for there neither are, nor any have been there a good while : yet if there were, you may not hunt my free chartered warren, but that if default of mounds be, if it were by my default, it fhould be amended ; if by his, he might look better thereunto." He anfwered, he " muft hunt thofe grounds." I anfwered, " I think not that beft for you to do, for that I would not lofe the right of mine inheritance, but defend the fame as I would my life and body, as I lawfully might. But it is thou, Wynton, that procureth thefe dealings, thou makeff common of my grounds, both with cattle and hogs, and all other difordered means. But take this for a warning, and provoke me no farther, nor interrupt me in mine inheritance, more than I difturb you in your Chafe, or other places in your charge." And fo we departed. On the Thurfday night, at 12 of the clock, I, being in bed, and in fleep, as I hear by my fervant's report, and by Savage's confeflion underftood, Savage, the Ranger of the Chafe, bringing with him 15 other perfons with bows, foreft bills, and long picked ftaffs, came into my grounds, my Warrener at that time being in my warren ; and perceiving by their noife that hunters were entered, as he fuppofed, came home to the houfe, and called up my fervants, faying, that " hunters were come to hunt my grounds." Wherewith 3 of his fellows came out with ftaffs with him, before his return they having caft off" hounds, blowing horns, and making hallooing, and loud cry, had begun their hunting, fhogging down to the wood clofe, wherein the gully between both woods, my fervants overtook them : and Jenkens, my fervant, afked, " What good fellows are there ? They anfwered, " Here are good fellows." Jenkens faid, " What make you here ? " They anfwered, " We hunt the grounds ! " " What," faid Jenkens, "this is my Mafter's feveral grounds ; here may be no hunting fuffered, and therefore depart." "Nay," faid they, "we have, and will hunt Salden." Jenkens faid, "Neither you may, nor fhall hunt, and therefore ftand." There appeared but three at this fpeech, but immediately came leaping in at a gap out of the wood the whole company, and environed my men ; and Underwood, the Keeper, ftruck at my fervants, and an arrow was (hot, wherewith Bartelmew Cornifhe is wounded ; Sir yohn Fortefcue. 2 l 7 and fo, without any farther fpeech, the fray began; in which are hurt of my men, Bartelmew Cornifhe in the thigh with an arrow, and in the head with a foreft-bill ; and Jenkens, thruft into the breaft with the pike of a bill ; and Richard Houfe, on the head with a foreft-bill : many arrows were by them {hot, as well forked-heads, as other. In the end, by the coming of 6 other of my fervants, their fellows were refcued, Savage ftricken down and taken, divers of their company hurt, and the reft fled away, leaving Savage behind, who was brought to my houfe, and there drefled, and ufed in the beft manner I could devife, and being by me charged of his evil dealing, anfwered, he u would not have done it, if he had not been commanded by the Lord Grey, whofe laft words to him in Wales were, that he fhould hunt Salden," with other like fpeeches. That they came of purpofe appeareth by their company, and alfo for that Underwood had armed himfelf, with fheetes and clothes for his defence. Their whole hunting in my free warren was injurious, and fythe Wynton, Keeper of that walk, by his own confeflion, was gone to bed, after the making in of his charge, and finding no foyle nor fault, but called up by Savage and the reft, it appeareth that their purpofe tended not to make home deer, but to fpoil my warren, or fome like intent. The fpeech of Gwynethe, who, in his bed before witnefs, confefled the purpofe of their coming to be either to hunt, or receive hurts, maketh (how of their meaning. My Lord Grey's men hath continually fince ufed their hunting, and other provocations, to divers perfons enforcing quarrels, if any acceptation would have been made. 1 The examination of Henry Warrener, alias Lyfolly, Bartholomew Cornijhe, Thomas Jenkens, Richard Howfe, John Aborowe, Edmund Ayre, and William Symonds, taken at Aylejbury the 6th day of (Jclober, the lSth year [1574] of the reign of our Sovereign Lady the Queen s Majejly. Before Sir /William Dormer, Knight, and Michael Blonte, Efquire, Jujlices of Her Majejly' s Peace within the County of Bud, upon certain Interrogatories on the party , and behalf of our Sovereign Lady the Queen, as followcth : — The examination of Henry Warrener. To the firft Interrogatory he faith, that he doth well remember, that upon a Wcdnefday, (not knowing what day of the month it was), when Thomas Birde and William Wynton, being in Stafford's fields within the parifti of Murrefley, in the forefaid county, that his mafter, Mr. John Fortefcue, and Mr. John Fortefcue, his kinfman and fervant, James Foordc, William Dodd, Richard Howie, and this examinant, all thefe came into the forefaid field ; and, being in the field, Mr. John Fortefcue, his Mafter, commanded this examinant to go and ftay the above-named Thomas Birde and William Wynton, the which he did upon his Matter's commandment. And coming to them, willed them to come back, and fpeak with his Mafter ; they refufing fo to do, faying, that their " Mafter was not there : neverthelefs, if he were there, they would ftay till his Mafter came ; " and feeing his Mafter, they went back towards him. And being come together, this examinant's Mafter willed them to go out of his ground, for they mould not hunt there without his leave : whereupon they departed, and went towards the Chafe, where old Wynton ftayed upon the bounds of the Chafe, the boy, young Wynton, running away a great pace, and his Mafter, Mr. Fortefcue, following him, till the boy came 1 Domcftic, Elizabeth, vol. 92, No. 34. State Paper Office. Family of Said en. to the Chafe, this deponent coming after a good way ; fo that he heard not what talk was between his Mafter and the other at their departure, but for any affault there at the beginning, or ending, he can fay nothing. Neverthelefs, he confeffeth, for his part, that he had then prefently a pike ftaff on his neck feven feet long, James Foorde, and William Dodd, having bows and arrows ; but for what purpofe, or by whofe commandment they came out, he knoweth not. To the fecond Interrogatory, he faith, that upon the Thurfday next, his Mafter, being accompanied with 7 of his men, viz., Mr. John Fortefcue, his kinfman, with a crofs-bow; John Barber, with a crofs-bow ; William Dodd, with a long-bow ; Thomas Jenkens, with a ftaff ; William Symonds, John Heyward, and himfelf, with others, whofe names he doth not remember, neither remembering what weapons they had, only himfelf having a picked ftaff. All thefe went to Murrefley Grove about 2 of the clock in the afternoon, and there remained up and down by the fpace of 2 hours, or thereabout ; but they had no hounds, nor took no ftanding to fhoot at anything to his knowledge, but fo returned home again, not remembering any words fpoken there, either of the keepers, or of my Lord Grey's men. Item : he faith, that he never knew his Mafter do the like in hunting, or walking, in fuch fort to the faid grove, before this time. To the third, he faith, that he, with Jenkens, and Richard Howfe, being in his Mafter's warren the fame night, he heard, about io of the clock, a great noife of horns and hounds, and whooping of men, by eftimation 20 fcore, from his Mafter's houfe, in a piece of ground of his Mafter's called Myller's Clofe ; whereupon they went all three home, to call for their fellows ; whereupon they went with him thefe following, viz. William Symonds, with bow and arrows ; Edmund Ayre ; Bartholo- mew, with a ftaff ; James Ford, Mr. John Fortefcue, and William Dodd, with bow and arrows, Richard Howfe, having a black-bill : all thefe, except John Fortefcue and William Dodd, who came after the fray was ended, went together to fee what this noife meant. And Jenkens, with Corniftie and Howfe, overgoing the reft, this deponent coming after, found a fray begun, but who was the be- ginners thereof he knoweth not. Notwithftanding, he and the others before-mentioned, (except thofe before excepted,) took part with their fellows at their coming in ; but whether their Mafter had any knowledge of their going forth, he knoweth not, for that he neither faw him, nor heard him fpeak. To the fourth Interrogatory, he can fay nothing, more than commonly he himfelf, with Howfe and Jenkens, when he is at home, do ufe to walk in the night the warren grounds of his Mafter. To the fifth, he faith, he hath oftentimes before met with the Keepers, having no other words between them than friends ought to ufe. To the fixth, he faith, to his knowledge, none did levy hue nor cry, neither heard he any there, by word, bid keep the Queen's peace ; but found them fighting, and fo took part with his fellows. To the feventh, he faith, he did know Wynton's fon, and one Philip Birde, who he faw the day before the fray began ; and the boys he had feen at other times before, and he thinks they came to hunt in their deer into the Chafe ; but he knoweth not John Gwynneth, for that to his knowledge he never faw him. To the eighth, he faith, when the keepers came into the ground of Salden, there was thefe forts of warren game that he knew of, viz., partridge, pheafant, hare, and conies, all being his Mafter's game, this deponent and Barber having the charge of the fame warren. Sir John Forte/cue. 3 J 9 To the ninth, and laft, he faith, that hitherto he hath been found, fince his coming to the jail, as he hopeth, at the charge of his Mafter, and fo trufteth his Matter will henceforward pay his charges. The Examination of Bartholomew Cornijhe. To the firft, he faith, that he was not with his Mafter, till his Mafter was ready to depart from old Wynton, which was upon the edge of the chafe in Stafford's field, and there he heard his Mafter give this charge to him, and to the reft of his men, " that if any of the Keepers come any more hither to hunt, difcharge them ; and if they will not be difcharged, bring them before me." And there were prefent when his Mafter fpalce thefe words, Mr. John Fortefcue, Henry Warrenner, and Richard Howfe, and no more to his knowledge. To the reft can fay nothing. To the fecond, he faith, he can fay nothing, for that he was not that day with his Mafter. To the third, he faith, that he firft knew of the Keeper's hunting in His Matter's ground by the Warrenner, and Richard Howfe, the boy, who came and called him and his fellows j whereupon this deponent, and Thomas Jenkens, William Symonds, Edmund Ayre, and Mr. John Fortefcue went towards the Keepers, where the noife was, which was in a Clofe called Barnabie's Clofe, (fo called for that one Barnabie doth rent it ;) and being there together, they afkcd, " What good fellows have we there ? " They anfwer, " Here are good fellows." " Ye ought not to hunt here," faith we. " They anfwered, 11 We have hunted here, and will hunt here ; " and therewith fell together to blows, without faying on either fide, M Keep the peace," or making either hue or cry. And more than this he knoweth not. To the fourth, he faith, that no man did watch, to his knowledge, but the Warrener and his boy. To the fifth, fixth, feventh, and eighth, he can fay no more than already he hath faid. To the laft, he faith, he hath been found during the time of his imprifonmcnt at the charges of his Mafter, as he thinks. The Examination of Thomas "Jenkens. To the firft and fecond, he can fay nothing. To the third, he faith, that he, this cxaminant, Henry Warrenner, and Richard Howfe, being abroad in their Matter's warren, as they were accuftomed, heard a great blowing of horns, and fhouting of men, near his Matter's houfe, about 12 fcore oft", or thereabout, to his judgment ; whereupon he, this examinant, and the other two, went home, to fignify the fame unto their Matter ; but when they did underttand their Mafter was in bed, they called divers of their fellows, viz., Bartholomew Cornilhc, William Symonds, Edmund Ayre : thefe went forth with this examinant, and his fellows, towards the place where the hue was ; and when this examinant, and his fellows, came to the place where the noife was, they found that the makers of the noife were gone back : then, upon another fhout, this examinant and Cornifhe followed them further, and in that manner they followed the noife-makers, from place to place, almoft three quarters of a mile, until they came to a clofe of Mr. Fortefcue's, called Barnabie's clofe, where the faid noife-makers did (lay. Then this examinant did call unto them, and faid, " What good fellows are there ? " They anfwered that " they came to hunt ; " this examinant told them, that " they might not hunt there, nor fhould not." They anfwered that M they came to hunt, and would hunt." Whereupon the fray began, Birde (Mr. Savage's man) drawing his bow, and (hot at one of 320 Family of Salden. his fellows ; and at the end of the fray, Mr. Savage, a gent of the Lord Grey's, was found upon the ground, hurt ; the which Mr. Savage was taken by this examinant, and his fellows, and led home by them to their Mafter his houfe, whereby they knew that the refidue of Mr. Savage's company were the Keepers of Whaddon Chafe, and the Lord Grey his men. To the fourth, fifth, fixth, feventh, eighth, and ninth, he can fay nothing, otherwife than that which is faid before, more than to the fixth article, he faith, that there was neither hue nor cry levied by any, nor nobody bade keep the Queen's peace. The Examination of Richard Howfe. To the firft and fecond Interrogatory, he can fay nothing more than that before is faid by Henry Warrenner. To the third, he faith, that he, this examinant, was abroad in the field with Henry Warrenner, and that they heard a noife of horns, and a great noife of men fhouting, about 12 fcore from his Matter's houfe; whereupon he went with the Warrenner to his Matter's houfe, to call forth his fellows, and there came forth with them Thomas Jenkens, Bartholomew Corniftie, Edmund Ayre, and William Symonds, and the Warrenner; and they went all together to the place where they heard the noife firft, and they found nobody there, for the noife-makers were gone back. Then this examinant, and his fellows, heard the like noife again further off", about the length of half a furlong, to his judgment; whereupon this examinant went, with his fellows, towards the noife, and always when they came to the place where the noife was made, they found nobody, and thus they were led from place to place after the noife to the quantity of three quarters of a mile, or thereabout, to a place called Barnabie's Clofe, being in the tenure of one Barnabie, whofe cattle went there the fame time. Then two of this examinant's fellows, viz., Bartholomew Cornifhe, and Thomas Jenkens, overtook three of the men that made the noife. And this examinant, and the refidue of his fellows, followed their two fellows that were gone before, and they found them fighting with twelve or thirteen men, to his judgment; and then this examinant took part with his fellows till he was ftricken down, and afterward he could not tell what was done ; and more than this he knoweth not, as for any that bade keep the peace, or made hue or cry, he heard not. To the refidue of the Interrogatories he can fay nothing. William Symonds being examined, faith to all the Interrogatories as Thomas Jenkens hath faid, faving to the third, he faith — ■ That where[as], he, this examinant, came to the place where the noife was made, by blowing of horns, and fhouting of men ; that they found the noife-makers gone, and they fled from them, from place to place, until they came to a place called Barnabie's Clofe (a piece of ground that hath been let to one William Barnabie, by the fpace of 5 or 6 years), and whether he occupieth it ftill or not, he knoweth not, and there Thomas Jenkens, and Bartholomew Cornifhe, being fomewhat before the reft, began the affray. ' . Examination of John Aboroe, alias Browghe. To all the whole matter he can fay nothing, more than that at the beginning of the affray, he faith he was in Mr. Fortefcue's houfe, having there a brewing to brew for Mr. Fortefcue; but what was done abroad among Mr. Fortefcue his men, he knoweth nothing; and the next morning he went home to his mafter, Mr. Dorrell's houfe, and there did remain till fuch time he was committed to the jail ; and Sir Jo/in Fortefcue. 321 at whofe charges he is now during his imprifonment he knoweth not, but faith, if it be at his own charges, he is undone. The Examination of Edmund Jyre. To the firft and fecond, he faith, he can fay nothing, for that day he was not with his Mafter, but was on hawking. To the third, he faith, that about 1 1 of the clock in the night, the Warrenner Jenkens, and Richard Howfe, came, and called him out of his bed; and after he was rifen, he, this examinant, went after the faid Warrener Jenkens, and Howfe, who were gone forth before, and found thofe three dealing of blows with certain men, who he knew not, in a place called Barnabie's Clofe ; and there he took part with his faid fellows, till fuch time the affray was done : the which being ended, both he, and his fel- lows, went home, leading Mr. Savage with them. To all the reft he can fay nothing, neither doth he know at whofe charges he doth here lie. William Dormer. MlCHAELL BlOUNTE. 1 A Declaration of the Controverfy betwixt me, the Lord Grey, and John Fortefcue, unto the Right Honourable and my very good L.L. the L.L. of the Privy Council. It may pleafe your L.L. Mr. Fortefcue hath a manor in the County of Buck, called Salden, the grounds whereof, on the one fide, but with a hedge, are divided from the Chafe of Whaddon, into which daily the deer of the faid Chafe do feed and fly. Now hath it been a continual cuftom, time out of mind (as hath been, and is well to be proved), the Keepers, with hound and horn, to hunt and to make in the fame, without any refiftance, or juft gainfaying: till that about Shrove-tide laft was a twelvemonth, (as I remember), the faid F ortefcue came one day unto me, in the Chamber of Prefence at the White Hall, with a great complaint, that my Keepers had ufed him very evil in the hunting his faid grounds at Salden, and killing of deer out of the fame. \\ hereunto by me was anfwered, that "if they had there hunted to kill, I would not like of it, but would fee it redrcfTed. Marie, that if they had but hunted to fetch home the game, that then he was not to miflikc with that, for that himfelf did know the Keepers ever to have ufed the fame." Whercunto he, the faid Fortefcue, replied, that "they fhould do neither, for that he had a charter, and that he would be as able to defend the right thereof, as I the right of my office." Whereupon I, finding the cowlder and curtizer I was, the warmer and braver him to wax, could no longer forbear ; but with fome unfeemly fpeech here to be recited, though feemly then enough for him, did flatly tell him, " it fhould be hunted as it had been, till law had other- wife ordered the right of his charter to be better, than that of the Chafe's prefcription ; and that I knew what Fortefcue was well enough." To which he anfwered, " that he alfo knew what the Lord Grey was ; " and fo flung away. A two or three days after, I, not feeing Mr. Fortefcue in any other place, not well brooking his laft fhort fpeech, finding him in the Chamber of Prefence, told him, that " I had to fpeak with him, and 1 Domeflic, Elizabeth, vol. 92, No. 35. State Paper Office. In the printed Calendar this paper is dated October 6, 1573. T T 322 Family of Salden. prayed him to go afide with me out of the Chamber ; " the which he doing, " I did challenge him for his whott 1 and fhort fpeeches before ufed unto me j" who did, with fuch curtefie and reverence therein fatisfy me, as more could not be craved, and from the quarrel, entering into talk of the making in of his purliue, with great friendftiip, as I thought, ended thus; that I fhould "continue the wonted manner of fetching home the game, but not to hunt for the killing of any deer out of the fame :" and fo we parted, my Keepers having ever fince, without any fault found, or refiftance, accordingly hunted it. Till now, the ioth of Auguft laft, (I being then in Wales,) the Keeper's boy of that fide, finding deer to have gone out, fhook off his hound, and followed the fame to make them home again : the boy thus hunting, Mr. Fortefcue himfelf came unto him, and forbade him the hunting of it any more, with great words, that " whofoever did adventure again, mould be made to repent it." The boy brought word of this to one Savage (my Leivetennt 2 there;) whereupon the next morning himfelf did go to Mr. Fortefcue, (then at his houfe of Salden,) and fpeaking with him, told him, that he was "come to know, whether he had forbidden the boy to hunt Salden, and ufed fuch threats, or no." Mr. Fortefcue affirmed that " he had done fo, and that again he did forbid him the fame at his peril." Savage anfwered, that "what peril foever there were in it, he muft, according to cuftom and orderly, make home the Queen's game, otherwife that he was Aire to have but fmall thanks at his Mafter's hands, and wifhed that he might do it with quietnefs rather than otherwife." And,fo, without any other worfe fpeech of either fide, Savage took his leave of him. The next day, being the 12th of Auguft, in the morning, comes the boy that was wont to hunt that purliue, to Savage, (who was ready to ride about certain bufinefs from home for that day,) and told him that " there were deer gone into Salden, but that he durft not alone go to hunt them home : " where- upon, Savage willed an under Keeper of his to go with him. This Keeper, with the boy, about 2 or 3 of the clock in the afternoon, did go and hunt that purliue; and having done, and being a quarter of a mile on their way homeward, 2 of Mr. Fortefcue's men, with ftaves, came running after them, and called unto them to ftay; and having overtaken them, told them, that they "muft come to their Mafter j" which the Keeper refufing, after multiplying of fome words, and a mow to have offered force, Mr. Fortefcue's men returned back in great hafte; the Keepers, on the other fide, made home- ward : but they had not gone 2 furlongs, when the fame fellows, the one of them having changed his pitchfork into a bill, had crofted them, and overtaken them again, and then did flatly fay unto them, that, "whether they would or no, they fhould go with them to their Mafter." " Why ? " quoth the Keeper : " where is your Mafter?" " On the other fide of the hedge," anfwered Mr. Fortefcue's men. " Why, then," faid the Keeper, "we will go, but to his houfe I would not have gone." Which no fooner fpoken, but comes 6 or 8 more of Mr. Fortefcue's men, with bows and ftaves, towards them, and by force took their ftaves from them, with the loan of fome blows : and then Mr. Fortefcue himfelf, in great hafte and rage, comes over the hedge, and firft flies upon the Keeper, and beftows on him divers blows ; then, efpying the boy, forfaking the other, did fall to him, and having beaten him well, did command his men to take and hold him, whilft he might cut his points to whip him. Then the Keeper ftepped forth, and prayed Mr. Fortefcue " not to deal fo extremely :" where- with Mr. Fortefcue, more enraged, left the boy, fnatching a great bafs horn from him, and therewithall did beat the Keeper again ; the boy this while, being let go, ran away as faft as he could go. Mr. 1 Hot. 2 Lieutenant. Sir "John Fortefcue. 323 Fortefcue, feeing that, leaves the Keeper, and courfes himfelf after the boy, even to the Chafe hedge, where, finding the boy's father, after many knaves called, and great threats, that " he, or whofoever elfe of my Keepers or fervants came upon his ground fhould be killed ; " and withall turned him to his men, and " gave them open commandment to kill whomfoever came to hunt his grounds, and that he would bear them out : " this fpoken, the Keeper was let go, and fo this day's pagen 1 ended. The next day, being Thurfday, and the 13th of Auguft, Savage came home about 7 or 8 of the clock at night, to whom report being made of the former day's hunting, feeing the extremity that was mowed, and fearing that an hour's delay now of hunting that purliue might prejudice the title of con- tinuance thereof more than a week's forbearing another time, prefently took, befides two Keepers, 5 or 6 of my own men, being weaponed all with ftaves, faving one bow and one bill; and going to the pur- liue, did fend into the grounds with the hounds but the wonted boy with 2 Keepers, he Maying with the reft under the hedge for refcue only of the hunters, who were not gone 2 bow fhot from their company but were fet on by 5 or 6; and the Keepers, feeking, as they were commanded, to retire themfelves to the place where Savage lay, one of them being not able to hold foot with the other, was driven to turn, and call to his fellows to ftay with him ; which he no fooner had done, but 2 or 3 lighting upon him, was ftricken down. Now Savage, hearing that the fight was already tried there, came forth with his 6 or 7, where he found at the leaft a 20 to encounter him, whereof 8 or 10 had bows. So 4 of mine were very evil hurt, and one to the death, as fince is fallen out ; and thus have your L.L. the caufe, the beginning and ending of this riot, whereby a fubject hath loft his life. Now, it may pleafe your L. L., I, being advertifed hereof in Wales, did ftreight make my repair home, and havinge by examination found out the circumftance of the matter before difcourfed, and feeing divers of my men in danger of death, and knowing the right of the caufe to appertcyne to Her Ma 1 "', and confequently the offence and injury to return unto her, I thought my duty with mod difcrc- tion difcharged in feeking redrefs by due courfe and order of law. And fo, upon information to the Jultices gate of Privy Seflions (though for the aflembly of Juftices, whatfoever the adverfary untruly defameth, might have been at Quarter Seflions), to be called: At the which by honeft, fubftantial, and indifferent Jury, what untrue report foever is given to the contrary, Mr. Fortefcue, and certain of his men, his father-in-law being prefent from the beginning to the end, with liberty and leave to fpeak and alledge what he could in his or any of their bchalfs, as very often he did (a favor yet feldom permitted in cafes againfl the Cjueen,) were of ij riots indided, In the firft of which, Mr. Fortefcue himfelf is a rioter : In the laft whereat fo many were hurt with peril of death, it is found to be committed by Mr. Fortefcue's com- mandment. Since time of which Indictments, one of my hurt men, being, indeed, dead, I minded, ac- cording to equity and juftice at this Quarter Seflions, to have fought redrefs of fo heynous a facl as the killing, or rather murdering, of one of her Ma"", fubjedts comcth to. But being countermanded by your L. L. letters in her Ma"'\ name, would not feem to have them in fo fmall regard, although (under your L. L.'s correction, and dutifully do I fpeak it,) that both I had wrong to be fo reltrained from Juftice, and alfo that lawfully for all thofe letters I might have proceeded to the calling for Jultice, and the fame not to have been denied me, as doth well appear, as I take it by a Statute of A ". 2 Kd. III. Cap. g, if I do not miftake it. And furely, my L. L. to fee mine Adverfary, whom not only for calling, but alfo for well-deferving of prince and country, I may, without arrogance, (I truit), not only match, Query, Pageant. 3 2 4 Family of Salden. but fomewhat better : to fee him, I fay, fo much favoured in an evil caufe, and myfelf, in feeking of Juftice, fo lightly accounted of ; befides, the wrong doth bring no fmall grief unto me ; I am, therefore, humbly to befeech your L. L. that as your letters to prohibit the proceeding in Juftice have brought me the wrong and difgrace I juftly complain me of, your L. L. will now, by your letters again to the Juftices of the fhire for the fpeedy proceeding in Juftice, and calling of a Sefiions, redrefs unto me the faid endured Injury, I humbly end. 1 Ar. Grey. Lord Grey, failing to receive fatisfaction from Her Majefty's Council, now took meafures to redrefs himfelf. Complaint of "John Fortefcue to the Council. 2 May it pleafe your Honors. On Tuefday, the laft of November, the L. Grey, together with one John Zowche, came by ix of the clock, accompanied with xii ferving men of purpofe, and tarried in the {hop of one Lewes, a crofs-bow maker, above one hour, fending diverfe times out a lackey to bring word of my coming ; his men were laid divided on every fide of the ftreet a little beneath Temple Bar ; towards the Court ; and at x of the clock, or rather after, I came out of Chancery Lane on horfeback, with v men, unprovided both myfelf, and my men wholly by means of the commandment by my Lords of the Council delivered unto us both at Greenwich ; And paffing on, the L. Grey's lackey brought word I was coming ; whereupon they, all ready, my L. fuffering me to pafs, ftrake me on the head fo fore, that I was aftouned, and fell from my horfe, faying, as the ftanders by do report, " You have fpoiled me : " Whereunto he anfwered, " Nay, villain, I will have my pennyworth of thee ; thou fhalt not fcape fo : " with many other like fpeeches ; ftriking, when I was down, divers blows, which partly were by me with mine arm and cloak borne, and diverfe broken by a ferving man called Harry Clerke, who took the crab-tree truncheon out of the Lord Grey's hand, and brake a thruft that one of the L. Grey's fervants, called Tymothie, caft to have flain me withal : Some of the fervants of one Hearne plucked me up, and pulled me into an entry, where, Zowche thrufting at me, I had been flain, had not the faid Hearne's man broken the bow with a yard, where I ftaggered, and, not able to come to myfelf, was pulled into the houfe, nor could fee, or difcern any man, a pretty fpace : His men, all provided, fet upon my fervants, and ij of them are very dangeroufly hurt, and had been prefently flain, if the refcue of the ftreet had not been : All this, with many other circumftances of the matter, may be perfectly known to your Honors by the teftimony of diverfe gentlemen and inhabitants of the faid ftreet : Wherefore I moft humbly pray you that you will take order for my fafety, for that I am farther informed, that the faid L. Grey hath appointed another compact for the murdering of me and my fervants, which hereafter will appear : Moft humbly praying your Honors that Lawrence Hollingf- hedde, Thomas Wake, and John Savage, may be fent for, upon whose examination the truth of much more foul matter will appear." The State 'Papers here end abruptly, without informing us whether Sir John went to law to punifh the aflailants, or whether he, like Lord Grey, took his redrefs into his own hands. We find, however, that his affailant was foon after a prifoner in the Fleet, as appears by the following letter: — 1 Domeftic, Elizabeth, vol. 92, No. 36. State Paper Office, a.d. 1573. 2 Ibid., vol. 93, No. 1 ; date in Calendar, a.d. 1573. Sir yohn Fortefcue. 3 2 5 My very good L. It is not too be dowghted but y' Fortefcue wyll infoorme any thyng for y e bettering of hys ryght & obtaynyng of hys wyll, yf woordes, how ever ftrayned maye ferve the turne. But my L. I humbly befeetche you too confidre y' the matter doothe no lefs tootche myne enheritance then hys, and as hee doothe clayme & enfourme mootche for y e goodnes of hys charter, fo yf my fpeeatchies maye as well bee accepted as hys (as I truft there is no caufe but they fhuld) wyll I faye no lefle for y e liberties of myne office & bee allfo able, I dowght not, too make as good prouffes of the fame. If hys clayme of Charter bee allreadie good in lawe (as hee avowes the Judgies too affirme) what needes hee to feeke renovation of that w h is perfect allreadie ? I dezyre but lawfull tryall of owr tytles Sc as theyr goodnes fhall fall owte & bee adjudged content myfelf, make it w 1 mee or agaynft mee ; why fhulld not hee alfo bee fo. Ootherwyfe I can not aflent too parte w' any parte of myne enheritance. Hyr ma ,ie . I knowe, at hyr pleazure maye take not onely liberties, but office fellf uod occupatus vixit, fo that fhe dying liveth ftill, em- 1 Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 6177, f. 135. 3 Rapin, ii. 153. '' Rymer, vol. vii. part ii. pp. 20 and 2 2. 7 Lipfcombe's Bucks, vol. i. p. 2 2. 2 Burke's Extinct Peerage, Art. "Cromwell.'' 1 Camden, in Kennett, vol. ii. 638. 6 Willis's Not. Pari. 1 D'Ewes, p. 631. 35 6 Family of Said en. ploying all to the fafety of her fubjeds. And I befeech you remember that the Great Turk, when he conquered Conftantinople, found therein three hundred millions of gold ; If they,' quoth he, * had beftowed three millions in defence of their city he could never have gotten it. From this blindnefs I pray God defend us, that he may never be backward to give four fubfidies to her Majefty — for want whereof in time we may happen to lofe that which will not be recovered or defended with a hundred.' " The neceflity affigned for this very large demand was the continuance of the war with Spain ; and efpecially the prefence of a body of Spanifh troops in Ireland, who held the town of Kinfale. On the 9th of December he votes in a divifion of which an account remains 1 — a queftion was put from the Chair, for which feveral members cried " I, I, I," but when the doors were opened no man offered to go forth ; upon which a member (Mr. Martin) obferves that tc ever in this Parliament the Noes upon divifion of the Houfe have carried it. The reafon whereof, as I conceive, is becaufe divers are loth to go forth for lofing of their places, and many that cry 'I ' will fit ftill with the No. I therefore do but move this unto the Houfe, that all thofe that have given their I, I, would according to their confciences go forth ; and for my part, faid he, I'll begin. Sir Walter Raleigh rofe up to anfwer him, but Mr. Comp- troller and Sir John Fortefcue rofe in a hurry to go forth," and all the Houfe upon feeing them did likewife, and fo did not hear Sir Walter. The fame day, upon a motion againft the continuance of a tax of threepence per ton on lhipping in Dover harbour, 2 Sir John faid, quoting Latin according to his cuftom, " The Proverb is trattent fabrilia fabri. The gentleman that firft fpake had not fo good inftruc- tions as he might have had: There be Brew-houfes and Bake-houfes for the provifion of Victuals for Shipping ; The Haven will receive mips of three hundred tons, and is moft necefTary for the pafling of all merchants : The Tax is fmall, and times may be when the Haven mall need a great tax at one time : And if this mould be taken away, what then ? And therefore I think it moft fit to be continued." On the 19th of December, 1601, the Queen in perfon diflblved the Parliament. In January, 1602, Fortefcue was on a Special Commiflion with the Earl of Nottingham, Sir Robert Cecil, and a few more, to treat with French Commiffioners for the fuppreflion of piracy on the high feas. 3 On the 13th of February he was prefent at a Court in the Star Chamber, where Lord Keeper Egerton, by the Queen's command, made to the lords prefent a fpeech notifying her Majefty's wifhes upon various matters civil and religious. 4 If Elizabeth ever vifited Sir John at Salden, it was in the year at which we have now 1 D'Ewes, p. 675. 3 Rymer, vol. vii. pt. ii. p. 23. 2 Heywood Townfend, p. 308. 4 Heywood Townfend, p. 355. Sir yohn Fortefcue. 357 arrived, 1602. Under the date of July 8th, it is recorded : "We have fpeech of a progrefs to begin towards the end of this month, firft to Sir John Fortefcue's in Buckinghamshire.'' 1 I have not been able, however, to find any account of her prefence there. The Queen had by this time rewarded her Minifter's fervices with many lucrative places. A few months before, on the 16th of September, 1601, he was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancafter for ten days only; the office was then put into Commiflion until the 4th of November, when he had a renewal of the patent during the Queen's pleafure ; thus now, and until the death of Elizabeth, he was Mafter of the Great Wardrobe, Under Treafurer of the Exchequer, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancafter." Mr. Napier remarks upon this laft appointment, that few Minifters perhaps ever held fo many offices at the fame time as Sir John Fortefcue. Befides the above, he was made, in January, 1 60 1, Recorder of Cambridge, in fucceffion to Lord Keeper Egerton. Somewhere about this period Archbifhop Hutton preached before, or rather to, the Queen at Whitehall 1 a fermon on the duty of naming her fucceflbr, in which he went fo far as to fay, " that the expectations of all writers went northward, naming, without circumlocution, Scotland." Elizabeth, although when he finiftied ftie opened the window of her clofet, and thanked the preacher for his very learned fermon, took much offence, and fent Sir John Fortefcue and another councillor to him, " with a fharp meflage, to which he was glad to give a patient anfwer ; telling Harrington, who has left us this account, when afked by him for 1 copy, that he durft not give a copy to any one, for that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Fortefcue, and Sir John Woolley Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, had been with him from the Queen with fuch a greeting that he fcant knew whether he was a prifoner or a free man ; and that the fpeech being already ill taken, the writing might exafperatc that which was already exulcerate." On the 29th of January, 1603,* we find Fortefcue, for the laft time in this reign, named on a Special Commiflion, whofe duties were important and rcfponfible; for the Commif- fioners had powers, in the words of the patent, to M exile and banifh out of the realm all Jefuits and Seminary Priefts, as well as Wandering and Ma fling Priefts, as feducers of our loving fubjects." The death of the Queen, whofe health had been failing for fome months part, took place- on the 24th of March in this year (1603), and was much felt by Sir John who had been fo long and intimately connected with his royal miftrefs. The Privy Council met almoft immediately upon her death. She breathed her laft at three o'clock in the morning, and the 1 Nichols's Elizabeth's Progrcfll-s, vol. ii. p. 21. 2 Napier, Swyncombe, p. 400 ; and Note A in Appendix. 3 Strickland's Queens of England, vii. 221, from Harrington's Memoirs. 4 Rymer, vol. vii. part ii. p. 61. 358 Family of Salden. councillors affembled three hours later. Sir John was one of thofe prefent; and his fignature is attached to the proclamation which was then drawn up and publifhed, 1 declaring, " with one heart, and confent of tongue and voice, that the high and mighty prince James the Sixth of Scotland is now, by the death of our late fovereign queen of England of famous memory, become alfo our only lawful, lineal, and rightful Liege Lord James the Firft." nf,cUd cHeiffe fi/fice of He was again prefent, 2 four days after, at a council, when letters were addrefled to the Commiflioners at Bremen, announcing the acceffion of James. The Queen's funeral took place on the 28th of April, at Weftminfter, the ceremony being very much arranged by Sir John, as appears by his ftatement of charges for the fame 3 1 Strype's Annals of Reformation, vol. iv. p. 516. 2 Rymer, vol. vii. part ii. p. 63. 3 Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 5751, fol. 45. Sir John Forte/cue. 359 which is given in the Appendix; as well as by an order of the 1 6th June, 1603/ directing payment to him of 3000/. towards the expenfes. The woodcut reprefents part of the funeral proceflion, 2 taken from a roll twenty-eight feet long, with numerous figures, the principal perfonages having their names written over them ; the whole being the work of William Camden, Clarencieux Herald. With the life and reign of Elizabeth the career of her faithful Minifter almoft clofes. His health had become weak, and his years were not few. He fhared in the apprehenfion that the Scotch King would be fwayed rather by Minifters chofen from among his own coun- trymen, than by thofe of his predecefiors on the Englim throne, and he was one of thofe who thought that James ought to be aflced, upon his acceflion, to agree to certain conditions, and to fign certain articles calculated to fet bounds to his expected importation of needy Scots. Ofborne in his Memoirs thus writes : — " The hopes of fome and fears of the major part, aiMed by the prudent carriage of the Treafurer, and ranting proteftations of the Earl of Northumberland (that in all places vapoured he would bring him in by the fword) had Mopped their mouths that defired (in regard of the known feud between the Nations Englifh and Scotch) he might be obliged to articles ; and amongft thefe noble and public fpirits were Sir John Fortefcue, Sir Walter Rawly, and the Lord Cobham." 3 Lloyd alfo, in his " State Worthies," 1 mentions Fortefcue's and Raleigh's " defign of articling with King James at his firfl coming." And Bifhop Goodman, in his Memoirs, fays, " At the time it (the queftion of making terms with James) was debated in Council, I have heard it by credible perfons that Sir John Fortefcue, Chancellor of the Exchequer, did then very moderately and mildly aflc whether any conditions mould be propofed to the King. Which the Earl of Northumber- land then hearing, protefted that if any man mould offer to make any propofition to the King, he would inftantly raife an army againft him." 3 It is mentioned by another authority that, M when Thomas Lord Grey, at the accellion of James the Firft, was for demanding an engagement from the King for the liberties or England, he was feconded only by Sir John Fortefcue." " We may remark, that this Lord Grey was the fon of Arthur Lord Grey de Wilton ot Whaddon, againft whom Sir John Fortefcue brought a complaint for trefpafs, as before detailed. 1 Napier, Swyncombe, p. 400, quoting Devon's Blues of Exchequer, James I., p. 3. 2 The original is in the Britifh Mufcum. 3 Ofbornc's Memoirs of King James I., London, 1658 ; and Oldmixon, vol. ii. p. 15. 4 Lloyd, State Worthies, 2 vols. 8vo., 1 7 1 6, vol. i. p. 442. 5 Bifhop Goodman's Memoirs, quoted by Morn in Buck's Records, vol. i. 6 Carte Papers, vol. lxxx. f. 439. 3 6o Family of Salden. The Rev. Mr. Horn, in his fketch of Sir John's life, has inferted a paflage from " Lord Northampton's Letters to the Earl of Marr," written, it feems, before the Queen's death, which fhows that the profpect of King James's fucceffion was not one to which Fortefcue looked with fatisfaction. It is as follows : — " Sir John Fortefcue, fpeaking awhile agone with a dear friend of his own, of the weak- nefs of the time, faid that his comfort was, that he was old and weak as the time itfelf, being born in the fame year with the Queen ; but yet he would advife his fon to take a right courfe when the hour came, without taking knowledge in the meantime of any perfon or pretention ; for he had found by experience that they that met Queen Mary at London were as well accepted (ftanding free from further combination) as they that went to Fram- lingham ; and that they that came into the vineyard hord undecima (at the eleventh hour) had denarium (a penny) as well as they that had fweat before all their fellows." " The practice of opponents, as he thought, would caufe the labour of all men to be holden and accounted meritorious that had fo much discretion as in the meantime to be filent and indifferent." His conduct was very different from theirs, of whom Camden tells us that, " As foon as the Rumour was confirmed that the Queen's illnefs increafed upon her, 'tis hardly credible with how forward a zeal all Ranks and Conditions of men, Puritans, Papifts, and others, halted away at all times and hours, by fea and land, into Scotland, to pay their adorations to the Rifing Sun, the young King;" and yet he avoided the difpleafure under which both Raleigh and Cobham fell ; 1 they being forthwith forbidden the Court. James arrived in the neighbourhood of London immediately after the funeral of the late Queen, in May, 1603 ; and halting at Broxbourne in Hertfordfhire, at the houfe of Sir Henry Cock, 2 cofferer to Queen Elizabeth, he there, on the third of May, was met by the great officers of State ; among whom was Sir John Fortefcue, who is ftyled in the record " Chancellor of the Exchequer to our Lord the King ; " James having at once, by a warrant, continued in their employments all the Minifters of his predeceffor. For fome reafon, however, unexplained except by James's defire to provide for his favourites, Fortefcue was not continued as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Under Treafurer beyond the 24th of May in this year, on which day Sir George Home the new Earl of Dunbar one of the newly arrived Scotchmen 3 and James's reigning favourite, was appointed to both thofe offices. 1 Sir John was, at the fame time, confirmed in the Chancellorfhip of the Duchy of Lancafter, and of the County Palatine of Lancafter, 5 to be held during his life ; the patent, dated May 20th, reciting that thefe appointments were on 1 Oldmixon, ii. p. 17. 3 Napier, from Aud. Pat. No. xi. ff. 49, 50. 5 Napier, from Duchy of Lancafter Office. 2 Rymer, vii. part ii. p. 65; Oldmixon, ii. 14. 4 Oldmixon, vol. ii. p. 14. Sir John Forte/cue. 361 account of tarn veri fidelis et acceptabilis fervitii nobis per diletlum et fidelem confiliarium noflrum Johannem Forte/cue Militem, ante hoc multipliciter impenji, quam pro aliis caufts et con/iderationibus, &c. &c. A Patent, 1 dated May 24th, reappoints him Mafter of the Great Wardrobe. Before the arrival of King James in London Fortefcue had apologized for his inability to travel to Scotland by reafon of weak health. The letter follows here : 2 — Sir John Fortefcue to the King. Moft high and mighty prince, my moft gratioufe Soveraigne. May it pleafe your majefty, if myn age and unhabylytye of body cold afwell beare travell as my hart is defiroufe to do youe fervice, I wold haue foreboren writing and haue ben meflenger myfelf and partaker of thejoye w cb the fight of yovr Royale perfon ingraveth in the harts of your dutifull fubjecls, in that it hath pleefed god of his infinite mercy, by moft juft and lawfull fucceflion to place yo r ma tic in the imperiall crowne of your Realmes and Dominions. I ferved my late miftres and deare foveraigne 48 years, neere abowt hir perfon, w' fidelyty, and finceryty of hart and mynd: your ma' 5 greate favour in refpccling fo poore a man in contynuing me in place, I do with all humilyty acknowledge to procede from your moft princely goodnes w 1 owt any defert of myn: for which I can make no other fatif- faction then to devowe my felf and all myn to your moft Royall fervice: praying the Lord no longer to contynue lief, neither in me nor any of my pofterytye, then we (hall from tyme to tyme to the uttermuft of our powers performe dutifully the fame. And fo holding it better to leaue your majefty to your princely cogitacions then w' my rude writings to interrupt your Royall afFaires: in all humblenes and duety I comend your ma 1 " to our Lords protection, who give you longe life, happye days, felicytye in your affaires and contynuell profperoufe raigne, as in your princely wifdome youe can beft wifh them : this i6' h of Aprill, 1603. Your ma ts moft bounden and faithful! fervaunte and fubject, J. FoRTESCUE. To the kings moft eccellent majeftye. A vifit from the new King, which Sir John received at Hendon, was very likely made on the Royal progrefs to London after his ftay at Broxbourne and Theobald's. Nichols writes: — " We next find the King at Sir John Fortefcue's, at Hendon, when he knighted Sir William Fleetwood, of Buckinghamftiire, and Sir Thomas Hefketh, of Lancaftnre." 3 1 Napier, from Aud. Pat. No. xi. ff. 49, 50. J The original is among the Cecil Papers at Hatfield. 3 Nichols's Progrefles of James I., vol. i. p. 165. 3 A 362 Fcnnily of Salden. A little later his new fovereign honoured Fortefcue by a vifit at Salden. The King arrived there on the 27th of June, 1603 ; 1 having joined his Queen, Anne of Denmark, and his eldeft fon Prince Henry on that day at Eafton-nefton Sir George Fermor's feat ; from whence " after dinner they rode together to the houfe of Sir John Fortefcue, at Salden ; 2 where there met them many great ladies to kifs the Queen's hand, the principal of whom were the Marchionefs of Winchefter, the Countefs of Northumberland, and the Countefs of Southampton." Sir John entertained his royal guefts with great ftate and fplendour in his magnificent houfe for feveral days. Neverthelefs, in a letter to Lord Cecil, dated tc from my poore houfe in Weftminfter Abbey," July 5, 1603, he apologizes for fome fuppofed deficiency in the treatment of the Sovereign : he prays Cecil, " as it may light in your way to excufe the faults and too bad entertainment of their Majefties at Salden, which mould and ought to have been much better if I could have gotten provifion according to my defire, but now am driven to refort to his Majefty's goodnefs to take in good part the willingnefs of his poor fervant." The King while at Salden created many knights, all of whom were hofpitably received by his hoft. The lift of the newly-made knights, 3 which probably contains more names than were knighted during the forty-four years of Elizabeth's reign, and yet does not profefs to give them all, is as follows : — Sir William Dunche, of Berkshire, Sir John Dyve, of Bedfordshire, Sir Gerard Throckmorton, of Gloucefterfhire, Sir John Croke, of Oxfordfhire, Sir Richard Chetwode, and Sir Robert Harewell or Hartwell, of Northamp- tonshire, Sir Richard Price, or Pryce, of Hunts, Sir James Heydon, of Norfolk, Sir Thomas Snagge, of Somerfetfhire, Sir Francis Cheney, Sir Henry Longueville, Sir Henry Drury, Sir William Burlacy, or Borlace, Sir Thomas Denton, Sir Anthony Tyrringham, and Sir John Sandes, all of Bucks, Sir Richard Huntley, and Sir Thomas Hyde, or Hill, of Kent, Sir Thomas Cave, of Northamptonfhire, Sir Thomas or John Carrell, of Suflex, Sir John Townfend, Sir Henry Billingley, of London, Sir Adrian Scroop, of Lincoln, Sir Thomas Temple, of Bucks. 4 With fome others whofe names have not been afcertained. 1 Napier, p. 402; Strickland, vii. 405; Oldmixon, ii. 15. 2 Stowe, p. 823. 4 Brown -Willis's MS.; Parochial Hift. of Bucks. Lipfcomb's Bucks, iii. 427. Sir yohn Fortefcue. 3 6 3 The next lift differs from the foregoing, including alfo, as will be perceived, knights made at Sir Francis Fortefcue's, and at Mr. George Fortefcue's. Sir Frauncis Fortefcue's Sir John Fortefcue's Sir John Fortefcue's Sir John Fortefcue's George Fortefcue's George Fortefcue's Sir John Fortefcue's Sir John Fortefcue's Sir John Fortefcue's Knights 1 made at I Alexander Brett William Burlace William Chadwell Frauncis Cheney I Thomas Cave C William Dunche John Dyues Henry Drewry I Thomas Denton I Henry Longfeild Edward Lee t Frauncis Moore Robert Mackland Henry Mountague Thomas Mildmay William Meredith Lewes Mansfeild John Meares Thomas May Robert Mounfon Edward Moumford Charles Morgan Rowland Morgan Thomas Mildmay William Mynne Edward Marbury L Arthur Manwayring ( Raphe Maddifon Robert Myller Henry Maxie Richard Pryce ' Thomas Snagge John Sandes Adryan Scroope Anthony Teringham John Townfend Harl. MS. 3320, f. 244. 3 6 4 Family of Salden, Nichols, in his ProgrefTes of James L, fays, " that at Sir John Fortefcue's the King held a regular Court for the defpatch of Public Bufinefs, and that among other matters there tranfacted was a releafe of the Earl of Mar from the guardianfhip of Prince Henry." Dudley Carlton writes to Sir Thomas Parry, from London, on the 28th of June : — " The Queen lieth this night at Sir John Fortefcue's, where the King meets her ; it is expected the two Courts being joined will produce fomewhat extraordinary." Although the King and Queen actually met for the firft time at Sir George Fermour's, when the former arrived on his journey from the South, and the Queen on her way from Grafton Regis, yet, as they only dined there, it may be correctly faid that the two Courts were firft together at Salden. From Salden James proceeded to Windfor, where he held a chapter of the Order of the Garter, and difpenfed further honours with a lavifh hand, creating a number of Knights of the Bath, one of whom was Sir Francis Fortefcue, eldeft fon of Sir John. 1 In Auguft he received from the King a grant of the reverfion of three manors in Oxford- shire and Wilts. The terms of the deed are fo laudatory, that it would feem as if the favour was bond fide, and not merely a grant in return for purchafe-money. It contains the following : — " Sciatis quod Nos pro et in confideratione boni veri fidelis et acceptabilis fervitii per Johannem Fortefcue Militem unum Privati Concilii noftri, et Cancellarium Ducatus Noftrae Lancaftriae praedicti, tarn prasfata prasclariflima; Sorori noftra; Elizabethan Reginas defunctae quam Nobis multipliciter antehac facti et impenfi, de gratia noftra fpeciali ac ex certa fcientia et mero motu noftris, Dedimus et Conceflimus ac per prasfentes pro nobis hasredibus et fuc- ceflbribus noftris Damus et Concedimus prasfato Johanni Fortefcue Militi, prasdicta maneria noftra de Afcote, Berwicke, et Efterton in dictis Comitatibus Oxoniae et Wiltes." 2 On the 25th of July, 1603, when James and his Queen were crowned, the fervices of Fortefcue as Mafter of the Great Wardrobe were again in requifition. He received in December the fum of 2000/. in full payment of 5000/., limited to be defrayed by him towards the charges on this account. 3 A Parliament was called on the 1 9th of March, in 1 604, to which Sir John was elected, but not, in the firft inftance, for Middlefex. He was returned under remarkable circum- ftances for Buckinghamshire, for which he had before fat. The confequences of his election 1 Stowe's Annals, p. 827. 2 Grants, &c, 36 Elizabeth to 2 James I., f. 292, p. 7, in Duchy of Lancafter Office. 3 Devon's Mues of the Exchequer, James I., p. 7. Quoted by the Hon. and Rev. Henry Napier in his excellent topographical work, " Hiftorical Notices of the Parifhes of Syncombe and Ewelme," Oxford, 1858, where will be found a full account of the various grants of manors, offices, and emoluments made from time to time to Sir John Fortefcue by Queen Elizabeth and King James, fee p. 400 et Jeq. Sir yohn Fortefcue. 3 6 5 were fo important in a conftitutional fenfe, that the details which are fubjoined will be read with intereft. Sir John Fortefcue, Sir Francis Goodwin, and Sir William Fleetwood were the candi- dates for the reprefentation of their county at the election held on the 25th of January at Brickhill, by Sir Francis Cheney High Sheriff of Bucks. Of thefe three, the two laft were chofen ; but Sir George Coppin the Clerk of the Crown, by direction of Chancellor Egerton, now become Lord Ellefmere, refufed to receive the return, pronouncing Goodwin ineligible, becaufe there had been a judgment of outlawry againft him. The Chancellor then declared the feat vacant, and iflued a writ for a new election. Sir John Fortefcue was then elected in Goodwin's place, and when Parliament met, claimed the feat. But the Houfe of Commons fet afide his return, and declared Sir Francis duly elected. After a long con- troverfy, in which the King interpofed, but in which the Commons remained firm, a com- promife was agreed to, whereby Goodwin and Fortefcue were both fet afide, and a new writ iflued under the Speaker's warrant ; and the Houfe having thus eftablifhed its right to judge of the elections of its members, has ever fi nee enjoyed it — neither the Crown, the Houfe of Lords, nor the Privy Council venturing to interfere with its decifions. The whole cafe will be found in print in the journals of the Houfe of Commons, from which I take a few extracts. March 29th, 1604. The King informed the Commons that " For his part he was indifferent which of them f was chofen, Sir John or Sir Francis. That they could expect no fpecial affection in him, becaufe this (Sir John) was a Counfellor not brought in by himfelf." April ind, 1604. The Sheriff of Buckinghamshire Sir Francis Cheyne was examined, and afked — Firft. " Why he removed the County from Aylefbury to Brickhill? " He faith, " It was by reafon of the Plague being at Aylefbury, the County being the 25th of January, at which time three were dead of the Plague there. This was the only motive of removing his County." Second. " Whether he were prefent at the firft Election ? " He faith, " He was prefent, and was as faithful to writ this flcond place to Sir Francis Goodwin, as the firft to Sir John Fortefcue. He fent Sir Francis Goodwin word before the Election, he fhould not need to bring any Freeholders, for the Election he thought would be without fcruple for them both; firft to Sir John, fecond to Sir Francis. About eight of the clock he came to Brickhill ; was then told by Sir George Throckmorton, and others, that the firft voice would be given for Sir Francis; he anfwered, He hoped it would not be fo; and defired every Gentleman to deal with his Freeholders. 3 66 Family of Salden. u After eight of the clock there went to the Election a great number, then being at the County. After the writ read, he intimated the points of the Proclamation ; then jointly propounded Sir John Fortefcue and Sir Francis Goodwin. " The Freeholders cried firft ' A Goodwin, a Goodwin : ' Every Juftice of the Peace on the Bench faid c A Fortefcue, a Fortefcue ; ' and came down from the Bench before they named any for a fecond place, and defired the Freeholders to name Sir John Fortefcue for the firft. Sir Francis Goodwin being in a chamber near, was fent for by the Sheriff and Juftices ; and he came down and earneftly perfuaded with the Freeholders, faying Sir John was his good friend, and had been his Father's, and that they would not do Sir John that injury. " Notwithftanding the Freeholders would not defift, but all cried ' A Goodwin, a Good- win,' fome crying c A Fortefcue,' to the number of fixty or thereabouts, the other for Sir Francis Goodwin, being about two or three hundred : and Sir Francis Goodwin to his thinking, dealt very plainly and earneftly in this matter for Sir John Fortefcue ; for that Sir Francis Goodwin did fo earneftly proteft it unto him." Third. " Who laboured him to make the Return fo long before the day of the Parlia- ment ? " " He, the Sheriff, being here in London, Mr. Attorney-General, the fecond of March, at his chamber in the Inner Temple, delivered him two Cap. Utlagai. againft Sir Francis Good- win ; and before he made his Return, he went and advifed with Mr. Attorney about his Return, who penned it, and fo it was done by his direction. And the Return being written, upon Friday after the King's coming through London, near about my Lord Chancellor's Gate, in the prefence of Sir John Fortefcue, he delivered the writ to Sir George Coppin. And at this time, it being about four of the clock in the afternoon, and before they parted, Sir John Fortefcue delivered him the fecond writ fealed ; Sir John Fortefcue, Sir George Coppin, and himfelf, being not alone an hour together at that time, and never had but this new Writ of Parliament to him delivered." Sir John did not ftand again for Buckinghamfhire, where the vacant feat was filled by Sir Chriftopher Pigott ; but he was not long out of Parliament, being chofen again for Middlefex in the beginning of the next year, in the room of Sir Robert Wroth. Sir Edmund Hoby writes to Sir Thomas Efmonde on the 7th of March, 1605 : "Sir John Fortefcue is chofen Knight of the Shire of Middlefex in Robert Wroth's room." 1 " The 24th of February Sir John Fortefcue appeared in the Parliament Houfe." We have the following letter written about this time : — See Court and Times of James I., vol. i. p. 61, 2 vols. 8vo. 1848. • l-*.e J v**-^ % A i uHftl*- Csjeny J^trr} Autograph Letter from the Right Hon Lle Sir John Fortescue to Lord Spencer, August 18^ 1604. Sir John Fortefcue. 367 The Right Honourable Sir John Fortefcue to the Lord Spencer of Wormleighton. y May it pleafe your Lordfhip. At your laft being at Weftminfter it pleafed youe to have fome communication touching a match between this bearer Mr. Danvers, and your cofyn Mrs. Dorothee Pulteney; which matter fince has as I am informed father proceeded and growen towards fome conclufion; I humbly pray youe that youe wilbe pleafed to take fome payne and care in the finyfhing of a well begonne work I truft and that your Lordfhip will joyn with Mr. Shurley therein; whatfoever conditions youe mall think mete I will thereunto afTent, if my habylyty of body wold beare it I wold travell myfelf for their good, but now I am dryven to implore your Lordfhip and in taking care with Mr. Shurley to finyfh the matter : Thejoyntour is ofFred to be 99/. yerely which although it be fo litle yet I do allow thereof if your Lordfhip fo like, the lyving although not great yet if the yonge man prove thrifty (as I hope he will) is tollerable. The perticularytyes Mr. Shurley will acquaynt your Lordfhip withall and therfore I leave the fame to your wifdomes. This day the League betwen the Kings Majeftie and the Kinge of Spayne was finifhed and folempry fworen, fo that now the amytye is perfected his Majeftie goeth on his progres to Rockingham, and cometh to Grafton or Eafton. My fonnes children havyng ben vifited with the fmall pocks at Saldcn hath diverted all comyng to my houfe at this tyme ; and yet I am found out for the lone of 200/. which I have paid ; I think your Lordfhip fhall taft of the like mcafur. I wold gladly have fent youe better news, but now recomending youe to the Lord's tuicion I wifh youe health with increafe of honour. At my poore lodging at Weftminfter this xviii of Auguft 1604. Your Lordfhip's moft bounden poore frende ready to do youe fervice, J. FoRTESCUE. Endorfed: — "To the right Honorable my very good Lord the Lord Spenfar geve thefe." Lord Spencer was Sir Robert Spencer, created Baron Spencer of Wormleighton about a year before the date of this letter, on the 21ft of July, 1603 ; he was anceftor of the prefent Duke of Marlborough, who has the barony. 2 Mrs. Dorothy Pulteney here mentioned, appears to have been Dorothy Spencer, widow of Gabrial Pulteney of Leicefterfhire ; if fo, fhe was a diftant coufin of Lord Spencer's, and her firft hufband was probably connected with Sir John Fortefcue through the marriage of his daughter Margery to Sir John Pulteney of Mifterton, in Leicefterfhire. The original is in Lord Clermont's potTeffion. 2 Collins's Peerage of England, vol. i. p. 3^9- 368 Family of Salden. The Pulteneys and Shirleys were alfo connected by a marriage, in Elizabeth's reign, between Sir Thomas Pulteney of Mifterton, and Anne, daughter of Sir Ralph Shirley. 1 Sir John would have been honoured, and taxed, by another Royal vifit at this time, if it had not been for his grandchildren's infectious illnefs. James was not afhamed to borrow money from his courtiers, who feldom expected, and more rarely received payment of their loans. Lord Spencer was faid to have had more ready-money than any other man in England. The Rev. Mr. Home, in his paper on Murfley with Salden, printed in volume i. of " Records of Buckinghamshire," fays that at Swanbourne, near Salden, " The old manor houfe was probably built by the Fortefcues ; and tradition reports that the houfe was ufed as a nurfery for children of the family when ill or infected with fever ; perhaps on account of the greater mildnefs of the air there, than at Salden ;" the latter being placed on high ground in an expofed Situation. Although Sir John became a member of the Parliament for whofe destruction the Gun- powder Plot was formed in 1605, his name does not once occur in the recorded proceedings during any of its Seflions, and he died during its continuance. King James appears now to have been a third time his gueft ; on this occafion at Langley in .Wychwood ForeSt, in Oxfordshire, where Sir John probably had a houfe as Keeper of that foreft and of the adjoining park of Cornbury. 2 This entry is found in an Itinerary prepared for the King on his progrefs to Oxford in 1605 : — " Auguji 20, 1605. "From Woodftock to Langley Sir John Fortefcue's — For the King 3 nights. 10 miles." 3 Upon this viftt, and Fortefcue's favour with the King, OSborne makes the following quaint remarks : — "Though this remains upon record; that brave Fortefcue, that did firft oppofe this Scotch fucceflion but upon caution, injoyed his liberty, withoutt any more considerable lofs than fuftained by the exchange of the Chancellor's place in the Exchequer ; for that in the Dutchy of Lancafter, remaining to the laft a Counfellor; Whereas Northumberland that had drawn his fword in his favor was made captive, difgraced, and infulted over by his enemies." 1 Collins's Peerage of England, vol. iv. p. 95. 2 It will be feen by a document printed further on indorfed, " Sir J. Fortefcue's means of gain," that he had the " Fofterfhip " of Whichwood Foreft and Cornbury Parks. 3 Nichols's Progrefles of James I., vol. i. p. 518. Sir yohn Fortefcue. 3 6 9 " Nor had Fortefcue better fuccefs when by a huge entertainment at Cornebury he went about to oblige the King, for, as Tomlins once his fecretary, told me, He at his parting laught, and made an unfeemly gefture in the Porch." " Wherefore we may note it as equally pernicious to oblige a Prince above a reafonable requital, as to oppofe him beyond the extent of a moderate patience." 1 Two letters to Sir Julius Caefar here follow. The firft, written on the very day of the difcovery of the Great Plot. It does not appear who was the Mr. Knaplock connected by marriage with the writer. The Right Hon, Sir John Fortefcue to Sir Julius C/s ALTERAM AD DEVM OPT: MAX: ALTETRYM IN CHARJ CONIVGIS PECTVS MIGR£V IT Qyo D TERJIVM ER£T HOCTVMVLO QyiESCrT VEXIT ANN:2>MENS J KEuayrr ex novem libera svperstitesRobertv fKANQSCVM GVUELMVM ThOJMAM "ELIZABETH : ET ElIANOPvAM obtit 7 FEgByAiyiiBBi^yo^s^ Upon the tomb is an effigy in brafs of a lady in rich brocade, with the following lines on a brafs at her feet, fhown in the woodcut : 2 — " Tria cum haberet maxima Cecilia, Sanctifs : Animam, conftantifs : fidem, et caftifs : 1 Lipfcomb's Bucks, iii. p. 429. 2 Lipfcomb has left out this infcription, which I copied myfelf from the tomb. 37 6 Sir John Fortefcue. 377 corpus, alterum ad Deum opt. max. alterum in chari conjugis pedus migravit quod tertium erat hoc tumulo quiefcit, vixit ann. 29 mens : 3. "Reliquit ex novem liberis fuperftites Robertum Francefcum Gulielmum Thomam Elizabeth, et Eleanoram. ' f Obiit 7 Febrarii 1570." Above the tomb is an arch of ftone, forming a mural monument, with black marble tablets ; on the weft or dexter fide, under an arch, is this infcription : — " Hie jacet Johanes Fortefcue Miles, Magifter Magnae Guardarobae, Cancellarius et Sub-thefaurius Saccarii, et de privatis concilliis Reginas Elizabeth." On the finifter fide, under an arch : — ■ " Poftea anno primo Regis Jacobi fadus Cancellarius Ducatus Lancaftrias — Vixit annos 76, et mortuus eft 23""° die Decembris anno D m . 1607. 1 " Reliquit filios fuperftites Francifcum Praenobilis Balnei Ordinis Militem, et Gulielmum Militem, qui in Memoriam Patris defunfti hoc pofuere." Under the arches are two figures kneeling, habited as a knight and his lady, cut in alabafter, painted and gilt. On a fhield at the top of the monument are the arms of Fortefcue, impaling for Afhfield, Argent, 3 eftoils in fefs point a trefoil, Gu. On the oppofite fide of the chancel, that is to fay, againft the fouth wall, and directly facing the foregoing monument, is a larger one to the above-named Sir Francis, which may be conveniently defcribed here while treating of the Murfley tombs. It is a mural monument on the fouth fide of the chancel, confifting of an altar-tomb with pilafters upon it, bounding a recefs in which, kneeling at a defk, with books open before them, are reprefented, oppofite to each other, a man in armour bare-headed, and a lady in a long black robe with a large quilted ruff", and a veil defcending behind her fhoulders. The cuftiions on which they kneel are finely bordered, fringed and tafielled, and the whole painted and gilt. In front of the altar-tomb below, in a compartment, are the effigies of fix fons and four daughters kneeling ; two of the fons bearing fkulls in their hands, to fignify that they had died before their parents. At the top of the monument are the arms of Fortefcue impaling Manners. On each fide are two fmaller efcutcheons of arms affixed to the pilafters. On the dexter fide Fortefcue impaling Manners, and below, on a very fmall lozenge, Manners fingly: Throckmorton impaling Fortefcue, Gu., a chev. charged with two bars, gemclles. On a black tablet above the principal figures, and below the large fhield of arms, is the following: — 1 From Sir John's own account that he was born in the fame year as was Queen Elizabeth, it follows that at the time of his death he had not completed his feventy-fifth year. 3 c 373 Family of Said en. " Reader " For example know that this monument was erected in pious memory of Sir Francis Fortefcue of Salden, in the Countee of Bucks, Knt. of the Bath, eldeft fonne of the Right H ble . S r . John Fortefcue Knt. pryvie Councillor to Queen Elizabeth, and to King James, Chancellour to the Xchequer and Dutchye, and Mafter of the Wardrobe ; and of Sicilie Daughter and Co-heir of S r . Edmund Afhfield Knt; whofe pietie, virtue, and religion made him reverenced ; whofe liberalitie in hofpitalitie made him beloved ; whofe prudent care and zeal of his countries good made him honoured ; and of Grace Daughter of Sir John Manners of Haddon in the Countie of Darbie Knight, fecond fon of Thomas Earle of Rutland, and of Dorothie his Wife, Daughter and Co-heir of Sir George Vernonne Kn l . ; who in conjugall love, maternall care, domefticke difcipline, charitable workes, and religion equalling Th'ancient and beft Chriftian Matrons, was 34 years his joyful Wife, bare him 8 Sonnes and 5 Daughters, and in teftimony of her everlafting loyaltie, not only remained till death his forrowfull widowe, but alfo in memorie of their mutual love, erected this Monu- ment at her own proper coft and charges." On a graveftone of white marble in the chancel is this infcription under the north monument, 'about two feet from the altar-step : — " Hie jacet per illuftris Dominus Francifcus Fortefcue de Salden, Eques Auratus in Comitatu Buckinghamias. Obiit Die 9 Novembris Anno Domini 1729, anno aetatis 67. " Requiefcat in Pace." 1 " Eques Auratus " ought to be " Baronnettus ; " this Sir Francis being the laft Baronet of the family. The chancel of Murfley church having been lately taken down and rebuilt by the rector, the Rev. John Crofs, I took that opportunity to caufe the monuments to be completely repaired and reftored. They were replaced in their old pofitions in the year 1866, with the following infcription on a brafs plate: — " The three monuments of the family of Fortefcue of Salden in this church were reftored by Thomas (Fortefcue) Lord Clermont, a. d. 1866." There are no other Fortefcue tombs in this church befides thofe defcribed, although feveral other members of the family were buried here, as the parifh regifter teftifies. After Sir John's death the following memorandum was drawn up, for what purpofe does not appear. It is preferved in the Britifh Mufeum : — 1 Mr. Lord's account of Murfley and Salden, in Rev. W. Coles' MS. Sir yohn Fortefcue. 379 Sir John Fortefcue kn'. Chancellor and Under Treafurer of the Exchequer} 26 November, 1608. 1. Had by Her Majefties favour the figning of moft bookes that part of landes or any graunts out of the Exchequer. 2. Moveing of futes to her Majefty feconded by the Lord Treafurer, and the guift to the Earle of Eflex of the for which the Earle gave him at one time for his neweyerefgift by deede inrolled, fent unto him by Sir Gelly Merick, the Parke of Tickford in Buckinghamshire worth 350/. a yere, befides the woodes of greate valewe. 3. The Queene gave him at feverall times divers leafes in reverfion of greate valewe for 60 yeres. 4. Likewife the Fofterfliip, in fee to the heires males of his body, of the Forefr. of Whichwood, and Corneberey Parkes in the County of Oxon, with the allowance of 40/. for the fame. And divers other thinges, as the keping of Hatfield Houfe, Chace, Parkes, etc. duringe the life of himfelf and fon. Likewife the Stewardfhip, Bailiwick, and Keeping of Hanflop Parke. 5. My Lord Treafurer Burghley from time to time caft upon him many advantageous imployments in the Cuftomhowfe, as difchargenge of forfeitures, benefite of praifement. Endorfed : — " Sir John Fortcfcue's meanes of gaine, by Sir Richard Thekftin Kn 1 . told me 26 Nov r 1608." With reference to this laft name, I find the following in the Frere MS. Philip Gawdy, writing to his brother on the 3rd or 4 th of May, 1603, fays: "The King hath made very many knights, tho' of late he hath held his hand, for he repents him of very many he hathe made, and is very angry with fome Skots, for he hath heard that they took money for making of them. Councillor Swyfte and his fon, M r . Gargrave, M r . Thexton Sir John Folkew's man, M'. Turrett, and many others are knighted of much lefTe worthe." 3 Tickford Park was attached to Tickford Priory at Newport- Pagnell, fupprefled by Henry VIII. Lipfcomb's account, here fubjoined, does not entirely agree with the foregoing : — " Tickford Priory and Manor were granted in fee by Patent 11 November 1592, to Thomas Compton, Robert Wright, and Gelley Merrick, Efq., at the inftance of that unhappy favourite Robert Earl of Eflex ; and by his attainder reverting to the Crown, it was fold to Sir John Fortefcue, Knight, Chancellor of the Exchequer." : " 1 Brit. Mus. Add. MS. i 143, 1 2,497- 2 Hirtorical MS. Committor,, Seventh Report, p. 5^8. 3 Lipfcomb's Bucks, vol. iv. p. 293. 3 8o Family of Said en. In 1 6 2 1 Lady Alice, widow of Sir John Fortefcue, fold Tickford Park for 4500/. to Henry Adkins, a favourite phyfician to Elizabeth and King James. Sir John had iffue by both his wives ; by the firft, five fons and two daughters. Of the fons, two, John and Robert, died young ; Sir Francis was heir to his father, and will be mentioned further on. Sir William, the fecond fon who attained to full age, was admitted to the Inner Temple on the 12th of June, 1581. 1 He fat in the Parliament of the 39th of Elizabeth, 1597, as member for the borough of Chipping Wycombe. From 1600 to 1603 he ferved in the army in Ireland under the Lord Deputy Sir John Norris, during Tyrone's rebellion, 2 and efpecially againft the Spaniards in the fiege of Kinfale. He received the honour of knighthood, November 17th, 1600. 3 His father had obtained from the Crown the ftewardfhip and keeping of Hanflope Park, with reverfion to his fon ; and there is an Order in Council of April 26th, 1609, authorizing Sir William Fortefcue to cut timber there for repairs. 4 He died in the year 1629, 5 and was buried at Murfley on the 4th of June. Thomas, the third fon of Sir John who attained to age, was, like his brother, entered at the Inner Temple (25th of October, 1586). 6 He ferved in the Parliament of the 35th Elizabeth, 1593, for Wycombe; and died before his father. 7 Sir John's daughters by his firft marriage were Elizabeth, who died young, and Eleanor, married, firft, at Murfley, in the year 1585^0 Valentine Pigott, Efquire, probably a member of the family of Shenley, in Bucks ; fecondly, to Edward Hubbard, or Hobart, Efquire, whom fhe furvived. This lady was buried in the chancel of St. Sepulchre's Church, in London, in 1605, with this infcription on her tomb : — "Eleanora praehonorabilis Viri Johannis Fortefcue, Equitis aurati, Ducatus Lancaftriae Cancellarii, a fanclioribus regis Majeftatis confiliis filia ; Edwardi Hubbard Armig. defuncti aliquando conjux perquam dilecta ; fub hoc marmore jacet fepulta. Vixit annos 36, pie, jufte, fobrie, quoad Deum, mundum, feipfam, geftus, in fide, pace, fpe, Chrifti, confcientiae, gloria;, obiit 10 die Menfis Julii, 1605." By his fecond wife he had only one daughter, Margery, 8 who lived to womanhood. She was born in 1580 ; married, as has been already mentioned, in 1602 to Sir John Poul- teney, or Pulteney, of Mifterton, in Leicefterfhire, by whom fhe had one fon and four daughters. This lady died in 16 13, and was buried in the North Crofs of Weftminfter Abbey, with the following epitaph : — 1 Records of Inner Temple. 2 Fynes Morifon's Hiftory of Ireland, 8vo. edition, pp. 20, 246, 348. 3 Chamberlain's Letters, temp. Eliz. 4 Cal. State Papers, Domeftic, 1 603-10. 5 Murfley Regifter (June 4, 1629). 6 Records of Inner Temple. 7 Epitaph on Sir John's tomb. 8 Funeral certificate. Sir yohn Fortefcue. " Reconditur hie Margeria Johannis Fortefcu Equitis aurati, reginae Elizabethan, et Jacopi regis Confiliarii Cancellarii, filia ; uxor chariffima Johannis Pulteney Equitis aurati cui xxxiii aetatis fuae anno moriens filium unum filias quatuor pie commendavit et animam Deo obiit ix° die Martii anno Salutis 1613." 1 Several letters 2 by Sir John Fortefcue, befides thofe already printed in this memoir of his life, have been preferved. They are all more or lefs of an official character, and do not throw much light upon his private life; fome of them, however, are not without focial, as well as hiftorical intereft, and in the abfence of other contemporary fources of information to affift his biographer, I have determined to append them here. Nearly all the letters belong to the great collection of manufcripts at Hatfield Houfe, and I am indebted to the courtefy of the Marquis of Salifbury for copies of everything which it is known to contain connected with the prefent fubject. The Right Honourable Sir John Fortefcue to the Earl of Shrewflury. 3 My verie good L. w th my bouden dutie, Wher I undurftand my Kinfman M r . Edrd. Stafford who married the wife of Anthony Babington late of Dedick in the Com : of Dert> of highe treafon attainted is by y r L. (in refpect of fuch Landes as he there holdeth in the right of his wife) charged with the findinge of horfe and armor to be in readinefs when the fame mold be called for, whereof althoughe he hath labored to be dyfeharged yet he cannot w'hout certificate that he is ellfwhere for her Ma", fervice charged, I am therefore to entreat y r Ld. god favor in his behalfe and further to fignifie unto y u that he hath beene a Captaine of conduct both by fea and lande and ftill remayneth preffed under his M r . Sir Walter Raleigh in the Wardenfhipp of the Stannaries in the Com: of Devon; in regard whereof I defire y r honorable favo r in his difcharge, and I fhall be readier to do y' I- all fervice maie lie in my power and fo I ceafe further troubling yo u , praying god to fend y r L. health w"' increafe of honor. At the Cot at Richmond the firft of November 1 589. Your L. molt bounden, J. FORTESCUE. To the right Honorable my verie good Lord the erle of Shrewfburie one of his Highnefs moft honorable pryvie Coun- fell. 1 Le Neve, Mon. Anglic., vol. i. p. 42. 2 All the letters to or from Sir John Fortefcue which follow, when no other reference is given, are from the collection of Cecil Papers at Hatfield Houfe. 3 From the original in the Talbot Papers in the College of Arms. 3 82 Family of Said en. Sir John Forte/cue to the Keeper of Kennynghall Park. After my hartie comendacons. Thefe are to praie yo to beftowe on my lovinge brother in Lawe S r . Thomas Knyvett Knyght, 1 or on the bringer [of thi]s in his name one Buck of this feafon to be taken o' . . . . guifte w th in Kennynghall parke wherof yo u are keper. A[nd I mail] thinck my felf beholden to yo u for the fame. S Written the xviij th of Julie 1590. Yo r Loving frend, J. Fortescue. Sir John Forte/cue to Sir Henry Unton. 2 The death of our good [Lorde] Chancelloure I know cannot but be moft greevous [unto you]. His broken eftate and great debts accumulats our . . . Since [my laft letters] fome fpeaches have ben of youe and your fervice, it was [well if you] did remembre to write to hir Majeftie as oft as matter fit for hir knowledge occureth, for hir Majeftie expecteth fo moche, [feeing your] great chardge in fervice it were not amine your me[flenger ftiould come] aflbne as youe may leaft your chardges be not regarded [fo well] as your friends could wifh. This by way of councell I make bold to admonifh you of; for in this time of fkarfenefTe [and of] untollerable expenfes rewardes will grow colde. If [it feemeth to you] I may ftand youe in fteade, I wilbe ready to performe [to my power with] good will. And fo with my commendacions I corny tt you [to God's holy keepinge]. At the Court at White hall this firft of Decembre. Your affured lovinge Freind and Cofen, J. Fortescue. Addrejfed : — " To my honorable good frende and Cofen Sir Henry Unton Knight LordAmbaf- fadour for hir Majeftie ref- dant in Fraunce." Endorfed : — "December 1591. From Mr. Fortefcue." 1 Sir Thomas Knyvett was married to the daughter of Sir Adrian Fortefcue's fecond wife, Sir John's mother, by her fecond huflband, Sir Thomas Parry. Knyvett, as a Juftice of the Peace for Middlefex, fearched for and difcovered Guy Fawkes in the cellars of the Houfe of Lords. He was created, July 4, 1607, Lord Knyvett of Efcrick, Yorkfliire. The original letter is in the Britifli Mufeum, Harl. MS. 4712, fo. 311. 2 Brit. Mus. Cotton MS. Caligula, E. viii. fo. 179. This letter is much injured by fire. The death, Nov. 21, 1591, of Chancellor Sir C. Hatton, who had fallen into difgrace with Elizabeth, and was overwhelmed by debt, is the event here referred to. Sir John and Unton were both coufins to the Oxfordfhire family of Fettyplace, and fo connected, but their coulinfhip to each other has not been explained. The Untons were an influential family in the fame county. Sir John Fortefcue. 383 Sir John Fortefcue to Lord Treajurer Burghley. Right honorable w th my bounden duety, vppon the recept of your Lfes of the 18 of this moneth I pntly fent to S r . Thomas Shurley and acquaynted him w th the defects in the bands, and no allowance to hir Ma" e . made, where vnto he anfweareth that in the cautionary and garryfons their ar no checks, the numbre being full, in the army auxilyary abroad in fvice the checks cannot be certified otherwife then half yerely, and owt of the checks their ar div r fe paym ts and enterteynements allowed befids warrants of your L. and the lis. of the coucell, as vppon the accounts it fhall appire vnto your L. what is in his hands, w c h he will pntly pay if any arrearage be founde in his hande ; he farther defired me to fignyfye vnto your L. that onles correfpondence in the contract be held w th the marchaunts it will tourne to their difcreditt and vndoing and he then fhall have no means to tourne ov r the money by exchang' but muft be dryven to tranfport money : Herevppon I prayed him to make a reconyng, for I was afTured that he muft not be payd in bryttany and the low contreys, both w ch he pntly did and the fome now to be payd amounteth to vij m . viij c ti or thereabowts, the ordre is by M r . Petre drawen to be affigned at yo 1 L. pleaf'. Towchinge S r . Ja. Mervyn I receyved enformacdn from the S'vayours, his receyt at midfomer to amounte to a m 1 ti your L. and my felf wrote vnto him to make paym 1 at Bar- tholomewtid but neither money nor anfwer is retourned. As to the fpailes in the weft I am very forry to vnderftand of them and am moft glad it hath pleafed hir ma" c . to fend S r . Robert Cecill whofe pnte will gyve countennce to the matter, and I do not doubt but w th S'. Walter Rawleigh and the reft appoynted by the adventurers, all things fhalbe well pformed, for of my felf I nevor named any, but left the choyfe to them felves who were interefTed nor did I ever think Inglebert mete to be a comiflioner but vnder- ftanding he was moch by M r . Secretary Walfynghm vfed in the laft prize, named him as our 1 to be by the comifllon r s vfed if your L. allowed it and no othirwife. As towching the pnt fvice I have fent Bland the furveyour w'h l?es to the officers of the ports of Kent, SufFolke and norf to joyne w'h him for the ferching' of all veflells and feazing' all goods can be any way found to be of this prize and efpecyally the daynty whofe mafter and maryners have behaved them felves very lewdly in making porte fale in ev'y place where they touched, efpecially at harw ch what is done I have yet no knowledge but that this morn- yng I here from S r . Jo : Hawkings fhe is in the ryver between Gravefend and London, S r . Jo. Hawkyns doth follow your L. advife and the ferch is appoynted to S'. George Barnes. M r . Billingfley and M r . Yonge and the reft of the comyftion's: by whome by the opynyon of S r . John Hawkyns it is thowght meat to comytt the m r . and captayne if thay cannot yeld good accounte of their doings. Sic in MS. Quaere, agent ? 3§4 Family of Said en. Towchinge Capteyne CrolTe M r . Wade and the other comyffion's haue taken his Examy- nacon w c h fhalbe fent your L. he promyfeth to deliv r . all truely, and feameth to lay great fait on othirs, and that he will not medle to ftirre any thinge in the bark his brother is in, but that all by juft accounte fhalbe deliv'ed and he will ftand to hir ma ts . confideracon. I haue coraaunded him to be fourth comyng vppon foure dayes warninge at his lodging gyven, to anfwer any thing that fhalbe objected and althowgh the adventurers were erneft for his comyttement I haue ftayd vntill yo r L. pleafure therein knowen: We have fpared to fend youe the particler of things founde in his houfe that we myght fend your L. all together w c h both in the bark and land carriage is expected howerly. I have gyven knowledge to Sothirton that onles he cleare his arrearage and put in fuertyes to the fome of m 1 m 1 v c li. before mychelmas day ordre fhalbe gyven he fhalbe fequeftred from his office and haue caufed warning to be gyven to the Baylif and firmo rs that they pay no money but at the audytt in the price of the audytoure and foch as yo r L. fhall thirevnto appoynt. Towching the rate of the Bays I fent your L. the opynyon of the officers of the cuftume houfe that all bays of lx thredds for fo the terme them, and vndre, ar to be accounted fingle bays, and fo to pay cuftume, all above doble ; the marchaunts and Bay makers do greatly greve hereat but defire that all vndre lx vi ij thredds may be reputed fingle, and after moch debate of the matter it is referred to your L. ordre to abate of the marchaunts requeft or allow at your pleafure. I fent your Lordfhipp the patrons of ech kind that the fmall difference appearing youe might do yo r pleafure in af . . afing for fingle lx thredds or above vnder lxviij what foev r youe thowght beft — all above that rate to be accounted doble and fo to pay : the cockfall bays being of a nother kinde and fynnes to pay foure fhillings the pece one w' an othir. Towchinge the adjornem 1 . of the receyt to Syon to be kept their the chardge to make places glafyeng and othir reparacons will coft hir Ma te . ccc a . at the leaft and Weftra 1 . being' cleare and the place ready wilbe more comodyous and no daunger, the greateft paym ts . ex- pected before menfe michis 1 ar owt of London both for cuftome and fubfidy and xv ms . I have ben both at Syon and Weftm'. but hir mats, pleafure muft be donne. I ftay the chardge of repayre at Sion vntill I here from yo r L. agayn. Yefterday as I was finifhing this lfes I recyved twoe Irs from yo r L. of the xx of the pnt moneth, the firft towching the gref yo u concey ve of the fmalle remayne in the receyte where- vppon I pntly repayred to Weftm 1 . and calling for M r . Billinfley and M r . Yonge have comaunded pnt paym 1 . of that remayne is in their hands, w c h I will w'h all diligence and care call vppon vntil it be ^formed and have fent to Smyth to vnderftand thireof, he was not in the towne but wilbe this night. I truft hir next weke yo r L. fhall fynd fomwhat pformed. I haue fent a p r fuyunt to my L. of London and fignyfyed vnto him the great diflyke hir ma tlc . conceyveth of this flack auferringe the tenthes and that the feafing of temporaly- Sir yohn Forte/cue. 385 tyes awarded agaynft him is not fo evill as hir ma" es . difpleafure and the flaunder w c h redundeth of their not paying in tyme of neceflytye of the pcefle no retourne can be vntill octes michis. Your L. other Ires towch a libellour I never faw and can no other wife conceyve then your declaracon maketh mencion. I fent to the audytours of the prefts and ferched in the receyte, but I neither could lerne, no find any thing: the officer of the pipe who keapeth the records of the courts of S r vey and Augmentacons is abfent : Herevppon I reforted to feke the cronycles and find that in the end of the nynth yere of King Henry the viij. The Erie of Worceftre being L. Chamblyn The bifhopp of Elye the 1. of S\ Johns S r . Nicolas Vaux S r . John Pechy and S r . Thomas Bulleyne were fent into fraunce Ambafladoures to treat the marriage of frauncs the dolphyn, eldeft forme of King frauncs the firft and Quene Mary hir Ma", fifter w ch they did and vppon remoure that the dolphyn was dedde The B. of Ely S r . Thomas Bolleyn and S r . Richard Wefton went to Conyack to fee the dolphyn w c h they did and the Erie of Worcester retourned to Tourney to make redeliv'y thereof to the french men and this was Anno Dni 1520. And the King was marryed to hir ma", mother the 14 of November 1532, fb that the fhameles lying of this libellour is mod apparant for hir ma ts . birth was in Anno Dni 1533 and then hir mother fhuld have ben but xiij yere old at her byrthe what may be farther found owt in this matter yo' L. mall have knowledge w'h all fpede, my L. of Buckhurft I have hirew th acquaynted who will feke all he may any ways finde therein. And thus craving pardon of yo r L. for my tedioufe Ires I comende yo u to the lorde' tuicon who contynew yo r helth w th encreafe of moch honour at I Tendon the xxiiij of Septembre, 1592. Your L. moft humble and bounden, J. FORTESCUE. Endorfed .— " 24 Sept. 1592 M r . Chaun- celor of y c Excheq r to my L. A. Libeller (Sanders if I miftake not) ag. K. Henry, reflecting upon y c Queen & her mother, confuted." 1 Lord Burghley to Sir John Forte/cue. Sir. I have acquainted hir ma ,ic . w th the writings, w ch you received from M'. Archibald Dowglafs; 2 and w th the accident w ch hath bene the ftaye of yo' cominge hither. For his writings I do retorne them unto you, w th some notes in the margent of myne ownc hande, 1 The original is in the Britifh Mufeum, Lanfdownc MS. 72, fo. 193. 2 For mention of Archibald Douglas, fee p. 337 of this volume. 3 d 386 Family of Salden. as I conceived hir ma ts . meaning to be. And thoughe this his courfe was to be allowed when he putt the fame in wryting yett I doubt that the chaunges in Scotland lately happinge may alter this his courfe, before he can dyrect the fame to be executed. And yett hir good will herein is to be allowed. And fo I pray you in fending to him his writings, lett him knowe this to be my opynion. And fo, wifhing you to have no other accident to ftaye you from y e Cowrte. At Otlands 1 y e laft of Feby. 1593. Your aflured loving frend, W. Burghley. To the right honorable my verie lovinge frend S r John Fortefcue knighte one of hir ma", honorable privey counfell. Sir John Fortefcue to Arch d . Douglas. According to your L. defire fignifyed by Thexfton 2 my fervaunte I acquanted hir ma ,le . w' your lfes and articles w ch hir highnes tooke in very good part and red before hir audience on Monday delivered to S r . Robert Melvyn : this day conferred w* me at lardge towching the contents of the fame and is very defiroufe youe fhuld fend unto hir that w ch youe receyved under their own fubfcription viz. the copy written by my Lords owne hand w ch is mencioned to be enclofed in your Ire. the principall whereof fubfcribed w' their own handes if youe defire is promifed to be fent unto youe w l power to add and deminifh as hir ma tie . (hall beft like: in this matter hir ma tlc . taketh good impreflion of your good intention and good fervice whereof (he will not be unmyndfull and uppon the receit of that coppy youe fhall have hir prefent direction of farther proceading : In the mean tyme I was not unmyndfull of your eftate and fute and for the prefent cold obteyne no farther but that hir ma tie . willed me to fend youe from hir on hundred poundes for your prefent relief w ch my fervaunt Thexton fhall caufe to be paid unto youe. And fo praing youe to fend the faid copy to hir ma tie . by Thexfton w' foch farther inftrudtion and advife as youe think moft mete hir ma tie . to be informed of I comend youe to the Lords tuicon. At Otelandes this 10 of July 1 593. Your L. affured loving frend, J. Fortescue. To my very loving frend M r . Archinbald Duglafs geve thefe. 1 Oatlands, near Weybridge, in Surrey, a royal feat where Elizabeth occafionally refided. It no longer exifts. 2 This was probably Sir Richard Thexton, mentioned already in this chapter as giving information upon Sir J. Fortefcue's " meanes of gain." He had not been knighted at the date of this letter. Sir yohn Fortefcue. 387 Sir John Fortefcue to Archibald Douglas. After my moft hartie commendacons uppon the recepte of yo r inftruccons I prepared to have repaired to the Courte to hir ma tie . but beinge advertifed infeccon of this plague to have touched fome of yo r fervaunts and fome of them dead therof in yo' howfe accordinge to my dutie I refrayned goinge to the Courte and fent the faid inftruccons to my Lo: Treaforer from whom I hitherto have receyved no anfwere but aftone as I have any I will acquainte you therw th all : And fo prainge yow to have care of yo r healthe and regarde to hir ma"', and yo' poore frends rather to fend yo r mynde in writtinge then to endaunger theire healthes in this infe&ioufe tyme I comytt yow to God. At Hendon the firft of Auguft 1 593. Your aftured loving frend, J. FORTESCUE. To the right honorable and my verie lovinge frend Archingebold Dewglas Im- baftador of Scottland. Sir John Forte/cue to Archibald Douglas. S r . W th my moft harty commendacons. this morning I have receyved the enclofed from my L. Treforer wherein youe may perceave hir ma", pleafure and his Lordftups opynion. the Alteracon in Scottland ar reported to be very great youe are wife and expe- rienced in that countrey and therefore I leave things to your confideracon. At Hendon this fecond of Auguft 1593. Your aftured loving frende, J. FORTESCUE. To my very loving frende M r . Archi- bald Duglafte geve thefe in Lyme Streat. Sir John Fortefcue to Arch' 1 . Douglas. After my very harty commendacons. I have receyved your Ires left at Hendon at my being in court where I have not ben unmindful! of yo r L. but delt for your relief and pro- cured hir ma", warraunt of twoe hundred pounds for your relief one whereof youe have receyved the other youe fha.ll have ordre for when youe will. I do retourne to Wyndfour on Satterday next in the mean tyme if any farther matter come to your knowledge w' h youe will have hir ma" c . enformed of I pray youe let me here from youe or if youe will come over to Hendon I ftiall be ready to fpeke w 1 youe : for fatisfaction of the infection of your 3 88 Family of Said en. houfe their neadeth no more I do allow your owne creditt therein : And fo I comend youe to the Lord. At Hendon this 29 of Auguft 1593. Your L. aflured loving frend, J. Fortescue. To my very loving frend M r . Archinbald Duglafle. Sir John Forte/cue to Arch. Douglas. S r . W my moft harty commendacons. Youe (hall herein enclofed receave hir ma 1 " 1 , anfweres and princely refolucons uppon thofe lfes I receyved from youe uppon w ch I nead not enter into any particularytye for that her ma tie . hath fully declared her mynde unto w ch it were good the LL. did conforme themfelfes for other wife it may confirme the opinion of unfownd dealing in them. I nead not ufe longer difcourfe, youe know fauca Japienti. At Hendon this 3 of October, 1 593. Your very loving frend, J. Fortescue. To the right wormipp" my verie Loving frend M r . Archibald Dowglas Efq r . Sir John Forte/cue to Archibald Douglas. S r . her ma" e . havyng had fome fmall indifpofition caufed by cold w ch now thanked be god is perfectly amended : being acquaynted w £ your Ires finding fome contraryety in the advertifements receyved from Scotland, hath willed me to pray youe I may fea thofe lfes and fignificacons youe have from thofe parts whereuppon your opinion is grownded for me underftandeth the kinge to have no refolucon anfwerable to any agreem 1 w 1 the Erles 1 and that Angus is retyred into the South parts of that contrey. Arrold by his hurtes and overthrow browght into hard termes and therefore is more defiroufe to underftand the grownde of your knowledge and opinion — w ch I pray youe I may have w l your convenyent fpede : I fend youe back the Ire to my L. Chamberlayn w ch youe muft fend to Somerfet houfe in Strand to be delivered unto him. And fo I comend youe to God At Richmount 4 this fecond of Novembre 1594. Your loving frende, J. Fortescue. To my very loving frend M r . Arching- bald Duglafle geve thefe. 1 The three Earls, viz. Angus, Huntly, and Erroll, are here referred to. 2 There was a royal palace at Richmond, in Surrey, from the time of Edward I. to Charles II., when it was pulled down. Sir John Forte/cue. 389 Sir John Forte/cue to Archibald Douglas. S r . I pray youe to come to the court to morrow morning fo that I may fpeke w l youe by 8 of the clock ; at your comyng youe mail perticularly underftand hir ma ts . pleafur for my L. Treforer and my felf ar to conferre w l youe and this praying youe not to fayle I comytt youe to the Lords tuicon this Monday 16 of June 1595. Your aflured loving frende, J. FORTESCUE. To my very loving frende M r . Archibald DuglafTe. Sir John Forte/cue to Sir Robert Cecil. S r . W my mod harty comendacons : I have fent the anfwere made to M'. Duglas as I receyved the fame from youe, and do fynd hir ma tic . to have conceyved juftly of the courfe by them intended and therfore to have made an honorable grave and wife anfwere : declaring hir felf a prince of value and refolucon who cannot endure any courfe indignum regia majejlate. I wold to god the many wife councells that of hir highnes great favour (he hath beftowed on that king might have taken better route in his mind: but what mall I fay ? I fere he will matrizare: 1 for this dobleling point of tolleracon in religion is but a clook to fhrowd all pracYizes and combi- nacons: Towching hir ma 1 ", great care and favourable declaracon of hir princely goodnes to- wardes fo unworthy and poore a fervaunt as I know my felf to be I muft entreat youe w l all humylyty to yeld my mod dutifull thanks and acknowledgment of myn unhabylyty to deferve ony part of fo great favoure, and to aflure hir ma ,,c . that neither my life nor ony worldly matter whatfoever is or can be to me fo deare as the good conceyt of her highnes unto whofe fervice I have and always will devote my life and travailes. I pray you herwithall to remcmbre my duety in moft humble manner unto hir Royall perfon, the lack of enjoying of whofe princely fight and comfortable prefence hath ben to me more grevoufe then my infirmytye w ch now I thanke God is uppon recovery, and I hope will give me leave the next weke to attend hir ma t,c . at the Court : In the mean fpace I acknowledg my felf greatly indebted to youe for your favour and great kindnes afluring youe that befides that I will always reft to youe a thankfull and faithfull frend in all may ly in my power youe fhalbe moft arTured that the gratfull remembrance of this kindnes fhall reft ingraved in my hart binding me to do youe and yours allfrendfhip and fervice may lye in my power. And fo praying youe to remembre my duety to my L. your honorable father unto whom I pray God to fend fpedy amende- 1 Sic in MS. 39° Family of Salden. merit of helth w l encrefe of honour, I comytt youe to the Lordes tuicon At Hendon this third of Novembre 1593. Your moft allured loving frend, J. Fortescue. To the right honorable and my aflured . lovinge frend S r . Robert Cecill knight one of her Mat 3 , moft honorable privie Counfell. Sir John Forte/cue to Sir R. Cecil. S r . W l my moft harty commendacons and thanks for your kindnes ftiewed unto me. I am right forry that myn infirmyty thus deteyneth me from doing my duety in attending hir ma tie . and my L. your good father : whofe ficknes doth as nere towch me as any, his children eccepted, for that I know him to be foch a Counfellour (qualis ut arbitror nemo unq. erit ut affirmare pojfum apud nos nunq. fuit) : by thefe I am to defire youe to let hir ma tie . under- ftand that I do in all humblenes recognize her great and moft princely goodnes in having care of fo meen a fervant whofe habilyty faileth to performe the duty he oweth to fo gratious a prince and-miftres, but had rather fink as deprefled onere offitii q. quod cum fide impofi- tum eft aut propter perfidiam abycere aut infirmitatem animi deponere : this day M r . Gode- roufe is w l me and I hope will grow to the full cure of myn infirmyty w ch I truft wilbe fo perfeyted as by this day fevennight I may be hable to come to the Court and in the mean fpace praing youe to recomend my duety to my L. your father whom I will and am ready to ferve in what it may pleafe him to comaunde and do dayly pray y e Lord to ftrenthen giving him helth and fpeady amendement w l increafe of honour, I ceafe to troble youe. At Hendon this 10 of Novembre 1593. Your aflured loving and faithfull frende, J. Fortescue. To the right honorable S r . Robert Cecill knight one of her ma ts . pryvy counfell. Sir John Forte/cue to Sir Robert Cecil. S r . I have confidred of the contents of your Ires and have conferred w' my L. treforer thereof by whofe opinion I think moft mete if hir ma'' 5 , fhall thereunto agree that a licens for fyve hundred tonnes of Beare to be tranfported owt of this port of London be graunted to fuch perfon as youe write of for that it wilbe redye money at this tyme and may moft eafely be fene unto that no more ftialbe tranfported then is by hir ma tie . given. And fo w l Sir yohn Fortefcue. my mod harty comendacons I comytt youe to god. At the Warderobe this 13 of Feb- ruary 1594. Your aflured loving frende, J. Fortescue. To my honorable good frend S r . Robert Cecill knight of hir ma ts . privye Coun- cell. Lord Buckhurft and Sir John Fortefcue to Sir R. Cecil. S r . W 1 our hartyeft comendacons uppon the receyt of your Ires we were moch perplexed both for the generall difcontentment of the people who moch expected this execution 1 as alfo for the fcandall hereby likely to enfue in the holecourfe of the caufe : the day appoynted was to morrow at 9 of the clock, it feameth hir ma' 1 ', mifconceyveth the courfe requifite herein, for the execution awarded at a day certeyn cannot otherwife be donne then is ap- poynted : nor can any execution be by the comiflioners warraunt but during fuch tyme as the comiflion ftandeth in force. We have herein taken the opinion of the L. Chief Juftice of England and M r . Attourney who have this refolved. So that onles the execution proccde to morrow or fatterday the Comiflion (onles on monday it be contynued) is to defolve, and fo w'owt hir ma"", warraunt no execution is to be donn. if on monday farther continuance be made then the delivery of the gaoles being full of feminaryes and other traytours of that kind w 1 other great malefactours muft reft in London unproceaded uppon. And therfore we pray youe in our moft humble and dutifull maner to make hir ma tic . herew tb acquaynted and that we may underftand hir princely refolucon w ch muft be had before 6 of the clock this after nown for onles we recall the warraunt the execution muft of neceflity be donne in the morning : nor uppon this warraunt can any ftay be farther made w'owt the recalling of the fame. And fo praing youe to let us underftand hir ma'", good pleafur w ,h we (hall in all duety fee performed we comytt youe to the Lord At Buckhurft houfe this 18 of Aprill 1594. Your aflured loving frends, T. Buck eh urst, J. Fortescue. In Fortefcue's hand. Signed. To the right honorable our very good frend S r . Robert Cecill knight of hir ma", moft honorable pryvye Councell. 1 The execution here referred to may have been that of Rodrigo Lopez, condemned with two others for an intention to poifon the Queen. See Camden's Elizabeth, in Kennett's Complete I lift, of England, vol. ii. P- 577- 39 2 Family of Salden. Sir John Forte/cue to Sir Robert Cecil. S r . w' my moft harty comendacons hir ma t,e . at my departure comaunded me to deliver to my L. your father the warraunt for money to be paid to S r . Henry Bagnall for his inter- teynements in Irelond : blamyng the Treforor for his unconfideratnes in leaving him in fo great arrearages, it pleafed her to name one thowfand pounds to be pntly paid w ch I replyed to be to litle to relieve his prefent neceflyty being fpoyled of all he poflefTeth for hir ma", fervice : hir highnes referred the matter to my Lordes confideracon. I moft hartely pray youe to advance the bill in that youe may, for I afTure youe the gentleman if her ma tie . make not conflderacon is utterly undone, whofe eftate is engaged uppon forfeytes if twoe thowfand poundes be not paid before the end of next terme : And this trufting of your honorable regard of the gentleman for w ch I mall reft to youe very moch bound I comend youe to the Lords tuicon this 10 th of Septembre 1595. Your aflured loving frend, J. Fortescue. To the right honorable my verie loving frend S r . Robert Cicell knyght one of her Ma ,s . preve Counfell. Sir John Forte/cue to Sir R. Cecil. S r . w' my moft harty comendacons I have ranfacked all the papers I have and cannot fynd any foch Ire nor did I ever write any to my remembrance towching my Lady of North- umberlandes joynter nor had any fent me thereof. The fute for the leafe grew uppon this ground, my Lady ftgnifying her unwillnes to have any fute againft hir ma" e . and perceaving the devife to the colledge to be unmete to be juftifyed made humble fute to have the leafe regranted from hir highnes and fo to be beholding to hir ma tie . for the fame : and at that tyme it was unknowen that hir Ladiftiip had any joy[n]tour at all : but for any Ire I never had any nor con fynd any Ire or fupplicacon towching that caufe. Althowgh I have made 3 houres ferch this day : yet will I farther this night perufe all the papers I have and to morrow bring what I can finde and fo I humbly pray youe let hir raa" e . underftand. At the Warderobe this 3 of March 1596. Your moft aflured poore frend, J. Fortescue. To the right honorable my very good frende S r . Robert Cecill knight principall fecretary and of hir ma ts . pryvy councell. Sir John Fortefcue. 393 Sir John Fortefcue to Sir Robert Cecil. S r . w' my moft harty comendacons we have conferred divers tymes w' S'. Thomas Shurley and have at laft browght him to yeld to aflure all his landes to my L. Keaper my L. treforer my L. of Buckhurft and myfelf to the ufe of fatisfacon of hir ma" debt: w by his f° n m 1619 to the Duke of Buckingham. Winflow, with Shipton, in Cotteflow Hundred, bought by Sir John Fortefcue in 1599 for 2329/. js. and id. Sold by his fon in 1619 to the Duke of Buckingham. Salden, in Cotteflow Hundred, bought by Sir John Fortefcue before 1580. Stewkley or Woburn-Abbey Manor, in Cotteflow Hundred, bought by Sir John Fortefcue. Tickford Abbey Manor, Newport Hundred. Sold to Sir John Fortefcue by the Crown upon the attainder of the Earl of Eflex, who had it before. Shenley, in Newport Hundred. Sir John Fortefcue obtained Shenley through his fir ft wife, Cicely, daughter of Sir Edmund Afhfield. It remained with his pofterity until fold, in the laft century, by the Whorwood family. The Rectories of Swanbourne, Whitchurch, and Winflow, were granted to Sir John Fortefcue in the 24th of Elizabeth. c. 1. None but in the j fruits office, vjs. 2. As in my former note. 3. Confeued by Stan- ton. 4. 20 lib. onely. 5. No warriit for 200 lib. & therefor reanfwered by S r . Walter Mildmay. 6. All y° flar chab r . the Trefory chaber. & a chaber in the Excheq r . & Vinytr. howfe. 7. None but as a Co- miffioner. 8. All and abfolute. 9. By war. to trer & chamberlain & the vnder treforer vnderftood under the word Trer. 10. Yea, by cuflomc & comon lawe, under black booke for cleric' thefaurarii. 11. Abfolute. 12. No. Rem'ebrances for S r . *Jo. Fortefcu. 1 1. What fees are due for his hand at any time, faving y'' 20 lib following. 2. What for the feale. 3. Whether 20 lib for pafling the cuftomcrs declaration at Chriftmas out of M r . Fanfhawes office. 4. Whether not 30 lib or what part thereof (20 lib) for the halfe yeres declaration of revenewe in M r . Skinners Office. 5. Whether not 200 lib for attendiice & 40 lib for diet extraordinary. 6. What howfes, romes or chambers for his eafe. 7. What Intereft in the j>ufall, viewe, difpoflng or kcapinge of the fubfidy bookes. 8. What authority in the ifluenge of the Kings moneye ; or over the 4 tellers in affigning payments to & fro any of them. 9. By what warrant the undertn r iflucth that money, & to who directed. 10. Whether a warrant directed to the L.Tn r & the 2 Chamberlains bee a fufficient warrant to the vndertrer to joyne in warrant w" 1 the L. Trer for ifluing the K\ money. IX, What authority the Chancelor or Undertri ; r hath to enforce any by imprifonment to pay a liquide debt to the Kinge, & whether by his meflenger to arreft the. 12. Whether the Barons may copound for or inflall any debt w'hout the I. Trer or the Chancelor or undertrer. 1 Brit. Mus. Lanfd. MS. 168, fol. 177. 4H Family of Said en. 13. What offices the Chancelor or undertrer may beftowe befides the clerk controller of the Pipe the clerk of the plees, the clerk of the nichels, the feller, the underfteward of y e Star chamb r & the 2 praifers of the cuftom howfe & 2 purfuivants. 14. What peculiar or joynt authority w th the L. Trer hath the chancelor or undertrer in the cuftome howfe over the Offices there, or in thofe caufes. 1 5. What place or diet allowed in Court for the Chanceler or undertrer, & where. 16. What attendance required there of him, whether weekely w th the weekely certificate. 17. What authority hath hee to meddle in mint bufines, or w th mint officers. 18. What confideration comonly taken for a Stewardfhip, a bailiwick, a furveyorfhip, a woodwardfhip graunted by himfelfe to a ftranger or frend. 19. What for putting his hand to that graunted by an other. 20. What the Clerk of the plees office is wourth what the cotroller of the pipe, & what the nichels^ & what the praifers of the cuftome howfe. 21. What authority over the Auditors, to take theire declarations. 22. What over the Pipe Office & officers & what defire the lone of the copy of the black boke, and of the red if his Ho. have it. Endorfed : — "Remembrances for S r . Jo. Fortefcue, 24 Julii 1606." D. Sir John Fortefcue* s Patent as Recorder of Cambridge. This Patent appoints him to the office of Recorder for the term of his natural life in the room of Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and gives him a falary of 4/. 12s. per annum. Sir Thomas Egerton was elected High Steward of the town of Cambridge, vice Roger, Lord North, deceafed Dec. 29, 1600, and on the fame day Sir John Fortefcue was elected Recorder, vice Egerton. Francis Brackyn, Efq., was Deputy to Sir John Fortefcue, as he had been to his predeceflbrs Lord Hunfdon, and Sir Thomas Egerton. From Cooper's Annals of Cambridge, ii. 599-600, and the Records of the Corporation of Cambridge. 13. them and befides the butler and cook of flar-chamber. 14. Equall w th the I. Trer for punifshingthings amifie & for examining. 15. None. 16. Weekely. 17. Equall to y°l. Trer. 30 or 40 lib. Nothing. 2200 1 . I4OO 1 60 1 4O 1 ^ach. Once a yere, & that in March. To overfee , theire doinges & commaund copies. The 1 . 1 have, the Sir John Forte/cue. E. The renewed fearch for the miffing portrait of Sir John Fortefcue of Salden, who died in 1 607, was begun in July, 1878, and perfeveringly and thoroughly conduced by Mr. Richard Sims. It was the Reverend Michael Dwane, of Wefton-Underwood, who firft afcertained that the picture was (rill in exiftence, and where it was to be found. It was ftiown to have parted from the Fortefcues on the failure of male heirs of Sir Francis Fortefcue, the laft Baronet, at his death in 1 729, to the Whorwoods of Wefton-Underwood, who inherited by marriage one-half of the eftate, and of Salden Houfe ; and it is mentioned by the Reverend William Cole, of Bletchley, who wrote in 1778, as having been feen by him at Mrs. Whorwood's houfe at Wefton-Underwood, where it was, no doubt, carried when that half of Salden Houfe which fell to the fhare of the Whorwoods was demoliftied in 1743. From that family it defcended by marriage to the Greenwoods of Brize-Norton, and from them, alfo by marriage, to the Patterfons of Leamington Priors, and it has thus been traced down to the prefent generation. Having in recent times fallen into the hands of thofe who did not confider it as a family relic, it was parted with, and has become the property of the writer of this Hiftory of the Fortefcues. F. Special Commiffions on which Sir John Fortefcue was appointed to ferve, in the Reigns of £)uccn Elizabeth and King 'J times I. March 26, 1593. Rymer, vii. P'. i.p. 117. Special Commiffion concerning Jefuits and other perfons coming fecretly from parts beyond the feas. To Lord Buckhurft, Sir Robert Cecil, Sir John Fortefcue, Sir John Wolley, and fevcral others. April 2, 1 60 1. Rymer, vii. P'. it. pp. 14, 15. Special Commiffion for the Suppreffion of Piracy. To The Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral of England, Sir John Fortefcue Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Popham Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas, and others. April 28, 1601. Rymer, vii. P'. ii.p. 20. Special Commiffion concerning the granting of Pardons to perfons engaged in the Rebellion of the late Earl of Eflex. To Sir Thomas Egerton Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Lord Buckhurft Lord High Treafurer, The Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral of England, Sir Robert Cecil, Sir John Fortefcue, Sir John Popham, and feveral others, of whom Egerton, Buckhurft, Nottingham, Cecil, and Fortefcue, or any two of thefe, mult be prefent at the meetings of the Commiffioners. 4-i6 Family of Salden. May 5, 1 60 1. Rymer, vii. P'. it. p. 22. A Special Commiffion for treating with the Perfons to whom fuch Pardons are granted, for their ranfoms and fines. To the fame perfons, or nearly the fame, as thofe in the foregoing Commiffion, of whom The Lord Keeper, Lord Treafurer, Lord Admiral, Sir Robert Cecil, or Sir John Fortefcue muft be there prefent at the meetings of the Commiffioners. January 29, 1603. Rymer, vii. P'. ii. p. 61. A Special Commiffion concerning Jefuits, Seminary Priefts, and other Priefts. To The Lord Keeper, Lord Treafurer, Lord Admiral, and feveral more ; including Sir John Fortefcue, and Sir Robert Cecil. September 5, 1604. Rymer, vii. P'. ii. p. 122. A Special Commiffion by King James for the banifhment of the Jefuits. To the Lord Chancellor, Lord Treafurer, Lord Admiral, Lord Burghley, Sir John Fortefcue, and fome others. Monument to Sir Francis Fortescue Knight of the Bath, in Murseley Church, Bucks. Faintly of Salden. Chap. XV. The Forte/cues of Salden continued. IR JOHN FORTESCUE was fucceeded in his eftates by his eldeft Ton, Sir Francis, who was member of Parliament for the town of Buckingham in the Parliaments of the 31ft and 35th of Elizabeth, a.d. 1592 and 1597, and in 1600 ferved as a knight of the mire for the county of that name. 1 At the coronation of James I. Sir Francis was among the fixty-two gentlemen upon whom he, in one day, conferred the Order of the Bath. Stowe fays, " Sunday (the 24th of July, 1603) was performed the folemenitie of Knights of the Bath, riding honourable from St. James' to the Court, and made (hew with their Squires and Pages about the Tilt-yard, and after went into the Parke of St. James, and then lighted all from their horfes, and went up to the King's Majefties prefence in the Gallery, where they received the order of Knight- hood of the Bath." 2 He inherited from his father the " Fofterfhip " of Cornebury Park and Whichwood Foreft, as appears by entries in the State Paper Calendars,' an appointment which probably accounts for the expreflion of "poor keeper " in the following letter :' Sir Francis Forte/cue, Knight of the Bath, to the Earl of Salijlmry. Right ho bl . my very good Lord : As I cannott excufe my felf altogether to yo r Lo 1 . in that I have nott in perfon fhewed my felf as I ought, havinge rcceaved many ho bI . favoures hereto- fore from yo r Lo 1 '. and lately by my uncle Parrye more good fpeeches then any way I have deferved : So I have nott bin other wife negligent but attended often to have done my duty : but y r Lo p . occations and his ma", fervices prevented me to offer my lervice unto yo r Lo 1 '. and w ch now I prefume to doe by my Letter: afluringe yo' Lo 1 '. wherin yo w (hall have occa- tion to commaund me I wilbe ever found nott only moft willinge and reddy butt jufte and faithfull and thus humbly cravinge pardon for this my boldnefte in prefuminge to trouble yo r Lo p . and that yet will pleafe yo' Lo 1 '. to vouchfafe to accept of a poore keepers prefent w rh this bearer my fervaunt is to deliver and accompt of me as one yo' Lo 1 '. mall ever com- maund. I commytte yo r Lo 1 '. to god : Salden this 27 of Marche 1608. Yo r . Lo p . moft humble to commaund to his power, Fra : Fortescue. To the right ho bI . my very good L. therle of Salyfbury att the Court. StOwe'a Chronicle, p. 827. From the Cecil Papers at Hatfield. Lipfcomb's Bucks, vol. i. xxii. and vol. ii. 560. 3 State Paper Calendars, Dom. June 9, 1606, and Dec. 23, 1611. 3 » 4i 8 Family of Said en. Sir Francis married Grace, daughter of Sir John Manners of Haddon, in Derby- mire, fecond fon of Thomas, Earl of Rutland, by whom he had ifiue eight fons and five daughters. 1 He died in January, 1623, and his widow in 1634, and both were buried in Murfley Church, as we have already feen. Of the fons, whofe names will be found in the Pedigree, John, the eldeft, fucceeded his father; Gilbert, the third fon, born in 1598, married Mary Woolridge ; he died without iflue, and was buried in St. Gregory's Church, London, April 29, 1623. 2 His will, dated April 23, 1623, was proved at Doctors' Commons, May 24, 1623, his relic!:, Mary, administering. 3 Adrian, the fourth fon, who was born in 1601, and died in 1653, is known to us only through the long Latin infcription on his tomb in Hodlington Church, Worceftermire, from which, after making due allowance for the ufual exaggeration of fuch compofitions, we may gather that he was remarkable for piety and learning : — Sta, Viator, et in Demortui veftigiis Viam immortalitatis Lege. Hie jacet D. Adrianus Fortefcutus, ex illuftri Fortefcutorum de Salden familia oriundus, cui fatis non erat nobilitate fanguinis infigniri, nifi partum a majoribus fplendorem majori virtutis fuas luce decoraret. Adolefcens igitur, parentibus, amicis, patriae, valedixit : et in maximam Europae partem, ftudio difcendi peragrans Belgice, Gallice, Italice, Latine, Grasce, Hebraice, fic loqui didicit, ut et doceret. Neque modo linguam excoluit, fed mentem etiam liberalibus artibus, ac fublimi philofophias et theologiae fcientia, nec non facrarum litterarum myfteriis expolivit. Eo demum perfectionis evafit ut rerum caducarum illecebras procul abjiciens mundo, carni, fibique ipfe bellum indixerit, quo, (Chrifto duce ac aufpice) feliciter defunctus, meruit efTe in praelio victor, in pace martyr, utrobique ccelis arifque dignus. Tandem annos emenfus quinquaginta duos, virtute magis quam aetate plenus, poftquam vitam labore, mortem patientia vicerat, obiit xiii Decembris, anno falutis mdcliii, tern's corpus, fuperis anima, pofteris omnibus avitae fidei et ardentiffimi Deum erga proximumque amoris, Chriftianas denique militias relinquens monumentum. Nunc abi, lector, et quo poteris greflu ad aeternitatem breve praseuntem fequere. 4 1 Murfley Parifli Regifter. 2 See Regiftry of St. Andrew's, Wardrobe. 3 Doctors' Commons' Wills. 4 Nafh, in his Hiftory of Worcefterfhire, vol. i. p. 292, fays that, " the foregoing infcription upon a brafs plate taken off a tombftone in Hodlington Church, is now lodged at the Talbot, a public-houfe in the village." Family of Salden. William Fortefcue, fifth fon of Sir Francis, was born in 1602. He married Anne Webb, having inherited through his mother, Grace Manners, the eftate of Bofworth Hall in Leicefterfhire. 1 He died in 1639, an£ ^ was DIJ ri e cl at Murfley. By his wife he left, with other iflue, Charles, of Hufband's Bofworth, or Bofworth Hall, married to Frances, 2 daughter of Sir Francis Bodenham, of Rye Hall, Rutland, by whom he had one fon Charles, married to Elizabeth Loggin, and who died at Bruflels in 1664, and one daughter, Frances, married to William Turville, Efquire, of Afton-Flamville, Leicefterfhire. Charles Fortefcue had iflue by the above-named Elizabeth Loggin a fon, Francis, and a daughter, Maria- Alathasa, who both died without iflue, Francis in 1748, and his fifter in 1763. Upon the latter event the Hufband's Bofworth eftates went under that lady's will to Francis Fortefcue-Turville, pafling over his father, William Turville 3 of Afton-Flamville, who was the fon of Charles Turville, and grandfon of Francis Fortefcue and William Turville before-named. Francis Fortefcue-Turville, who thus inherited Huiband's Bofworth, married Barbara Talbot, daughter of the Hon. John Jofeph Talbot, and fifter of Charles, fifteenth Earl of Shrewfbury. He died in 1839, and was fucceeded by his fon, George Fortefcue-Turville, born 1782; married, in 1826, Henrietta, daughter of Adolph von der Lanckin, of Mecklenburgh-Schwerin, and died in 1859, having had iflue, with other children, the prefent Sir Francis Charles Fortefcue- Turville, now of Hufband's Bofworth, or Bofworth Hall.' I am indebted for p3rt of the above information to the late Mrs. Fortefcue-Turville, who very kindly replied to my queries relating to the Fortefcues and Turvilles. We return now to the daughters of Sir Francis Fortefcue of Salden. Thefe were, firft, Frances, born 1590, died unmarried; Dorothy, born in 1593, and married to Sir Robert Throgmorton, 5 of Wefton-Underwood, Bucks, and of Coughton, in Warwickshire — fhe died in 1650, and was buried at Coughton; Frances, a chanoinefs of the order of St. Auguftine, of the Englifh monaftery at Louvain ; and Mary, married to John Talbot, tenth Earl of Shrewfbury. John, the eldeft fon of Sir Francis, was baptized at Murfley in 1592. 6 He married Frances, daughter of Sir Edward Stanley, Knight of the Bath, of Enfham, in Oxfordfhire, and was, by Charles I. in 1636, created a Baronet of Nova Scotia. He was in arms on the King's fide in 1644, and was taken prifoner 7 near Iflip, in Oxfordftiire, in May of that year, 1 See Mr. Fortefcue-Turville's account, in 1 857, to Mr. Fortefcue-Brickdtle, from his title-deeds. 2 She died April 15th, 1697. See her tomb in Afton-Flamville Church, where I copied this epitaph in Auguft, 1859: — " Hie jacet Francefca Fortefcue uxor Caroli Fortefcue de Hufband's Bofworth, Armigeri. Obiit l 5" Aprilis, Anno Domini 1697." 3 This William Turville died in 1777. « Burke's Landed Gentry, art. " Fortefcue-Turville." c See Horn, in Bucks Records, and Cole and Brown-Willis MSS. 0 Murfley Regifter, Napier's Swyncombe, Turville Pedigree. 7 Lipfcomb, iv. 282. 420 Family of Salden. having been furprifed by Sir Samuel Luke, the Parliamentarian Governor of Newport- Pagnell. Sir John Fortefcue died in September, 1656, and was buried at Murfley. 1 In this generation fome of, if not all the Fortefcues of Salden returned to the faith of their ancestors, which Sir John the ftatefman had been the firft to exchange for the reformed religion. The children of this the firft baronet were certainly Roman Catholics. Thefe were, firft, Sir John, the fecond Baronet; Sir Edward, who was knighted in 1641, married twice, firft to the daughter of Robert Brookelyn, by whom he had no children ; fecondly, to Mary, daughter of Gilbert Rerefby. He was buried at Murfley, February 14, 1662, having had iflue with another fon, who died childlefs, and four daughters, a fecond fon, Francis, whofe fon Francis fucceeded to the Salden property, and to the baronetcy as fourth baronet, upon the death of Sir John, the third baronet, in 17 17. We return to Sir John Fortefcue, the fecond baronet. He was baptized July 13, 16 14, at Murfley, and was buried at that place, June 14, 1683, having married three times. His firft wife was Margaret, daughter of Lord Arundel of Wardour, who died in 1638, leaving two daughters, Frances and Elizabeth; Frances married, at Murfley, May 18, 1657, to Henry Benedict Hall, Efquire, of High Meadow, in Gloucefterfhire, whofe only child, Benedicta Therefa Maria, married Thomas, firft Vifcount Gage. This lady, of whom Burke fays" that, " if the attainders affecting the great houfe of Northumberland were reverfed, fhe was co-heir through Fortefcue and Stanley to the ancient baronies of Percy, Poynings, and Fitzpayne," 2 became, with her coufin, Thomas Whorwood, co-heir to the Salden eftates on the death of Sir Francis Fortefcue in 1729. Elizabeth, the fecond daughter of Sir John of Salden by his wife Margaret, married Brome Whorwood, Efquire, of Sandwell Hall, county of Stafford, leaving iflue a fon, Thomas, juft mentioned. Sir John's fecond wife was Mary, daughter of Sir William Stonor, of Stonor, Oxon. Their children were Sir John, the third baronet ; William, born in 1645, who died childlefs ; and Lucy, who died young. The third wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Wintour of Lydney, in Gloucefter- fhire, who died in 1674, having had three daughters, Dorothy, Elizabeth, and Lucy, who all died young. 3 Sir John Fortefcue, born 1644, fucceeded his father as third baronet, in 1683, and died, at the age of feventy- three, in 17 17, without iflue. The title and eftates upon this event pafled, as has been feen, to Francis Fortefcue, the fon of his firft coufin, and grandfon of Sir Edward Fortefcue by Mary Rerefby. This laft baronet married Mary, daughter of Richard Huddleftone, Efquire, of Sawfton Hall, Cam- bridge, but had no iflue ; he died at Bath on the 9th of November, 1729, and was buried 1 Murfley Regifter. 2 Burke's Peerage, art. " Vifcount Gage." 3 Murfley Regifter. Family of Said en. 421 with his anceftors in Murfley Church on the 23rd of that month. 1 He was the laft male defcendant of Queen Elizabeth's minifter, and, fo far as we know, of Sir Adrian Fortefcue alfo. The extinction of the male heirs of the founder of the Salden Family was foon followed by the deftruction of the family manfion. It feems Grange, although it is not uncommon, to find fo little value either fentimental or pecuniary attached to a fine old houfe, that it is fold for its materials for a paltry fum and pulled down ; fuch, however, was the fate of Salden Houfe. The property fell to Lady Gage and Mr. Whorwood, in equal mares, under the will of Sir John Fortefcue, who had died in 1683 — the houfe itfelf being allotted half to one (hare and half to the other! 2 Brown-Willis, who faw the demolition with forrow, fays that in May, 1738, "that part of the manfion which belonged to Lord Gage, including the dining- room, or gallery-chamber, and half the noble front fide was begun to be pulled down, having been fold to a joiner, Thomas Harris of Cublington, for 400/. or 500/.," and this part thereby became totally demolifhed. " Harris was allowed four years for removing the materials." A famous old alabafter chimney-piece, much admired, was fold to Lord Fermanagh (Verney) for about 5/., and put up at his feat at Middle Claydon. "In September, 1743, the remaining part of Salden Houfe was fold by Mr. Horwood or Whorwood, and was begun to be pulled down, and the once noble feat, the fineft in the county, entirely demolifhed — except a fmall part which ferved as paffage from the lofty kitchen to the hall and great parlours." There was an immenfe quantity of fiained glafs in the windows with the quarterings of the family arms, and of the houfes allied to the Fortefcues. Willis and Cole have carefully recorded all the coats with their emblazonments. The former fays that he himfelf bought for a trifle eight of the coats of arms, two of which he put up in the eaft window of a chapel at Fenny-Stratford (built by himfelf), and two were, in 1 760, in the parlour of old Whaddon Hall. 3 Some of the coats were prefented to Judge Fortefcue (Lord Fortefcue of Credan). Mr. Horn, in his paper read before the Buckingham (hire Architectural and Archaeo- logical Society, and printed in 1854 in the firft volume of their journal, thus defcribes the prefent appearance of the fite : — " The fituation is fplendid, and bears fome marks of former grandeur. There are remaining a large piece of water, which doubtlefs helped to fupply the family with fifh ; a 1 Murfley Epitaph and Regifter. 4 See Mr. Lord's Paper on Salden, in Cole's MS. 3 The foregoing account of the fate of Salden Houfe is from Brown-Willis. Cole, and Rev. Mr. Horn, in Bucks Records, vol. i., kindly pointed out to me by the Rev. Charles Lowndes of Ilartwcll Reclory. 422 Family of Salden. circular mound, furrounded here and there by a ftraggling hawthorn bum, the remains, it may be prefumed, of a well-clipped hedge which ferved as a fence to the bowling-green, where it is faid that one of the Fortefcues was killed by the ftroke of a ball. This bowling-green was in a field ftill called ' The Beggars' Mead,' becaufe there the broken meat from the houfe was daily ferved out to the poor. One or more of the owners of the great houfe is reported to have been in the habit of giving half-a-crown to each poor perfon of the parifh he met with in his walks. On digging around the fite of the houfe traces of cellars have been found. The double-terraced walks of the gardens are ftill to be feen, with the fine old yew-trees which flood near the lodge at the entrance towards the fouth ; while in various parts traces of the wall that furrounded the building are vifible — the wall in fome places ftill ftanding entire, with portions of the original ftone coping upon it." The foregoing account agrees entirely with my own obfervations during an hour fpent at Salden on the 12th of Auguft, 1863. The fituation is a very fine one, commanding rich and wide views — never richer than at the time of my vifit in the midft of a harveft of corn crops unufually luxuriant, and in brilliant weather. Salden is about twelve miles from Aylefbury, and four from Winflow. It is eafily reached from Bletchley Station, diftant eight miles. Mr. Lord, the rector of Drayton PafTelowe adjoining Salden, writing in 1758, thus reflects upon the tranfient fplendour of that houfe: — "What man propofes God difpofes; for though that great man, Sir John Fortefcue, had amaffed fuch vaft eftates in this county, yet they are all now divided amongft feveral pofTeflbrs. The ruins of his magnificent houfe are almoft deftroyed, and his name is quite blotted out. I cannot help obferving here that Horace was wrong in faying that — ' iEtas parentum pejor avis tulit Nos nequiores, mox daturos Progeniem vitiofiorem.' 1 For if you look into the f Notitia Parliamentarian you will find that great minifter of ftate as careful to get his own family into the Houfe as any of our prefent minifters are ; and no doubt the reft of them did the fame thing. Pray, then, where was the difference between their times and ours in that refpedl ? " This vaft eftate was foon reduced to the narrow bounds of Salden and half Drayton." We may, from the foregoing, afTume that Salden and half of Drayton-PafTelowe formed the eftate which, on Sir Francis Fortefcue's death in 1729, parted, under the will of Sir John Fortefcue 2 who died in 1683, to Vifcount Gage and Mr. Whorwood in equal mares. 1 Horace, Book iii. ode vi. 2 Mr. Lord's Paper in Cole's MS., p. 6, written in 1758. Family of Salden. 423 The whole eftate was fold before the end of the laft century. It is now the property of Mr. Selby Lowndes, by whom a fee farm rent is ftill paid to Sir Francis Fortefcue-Turville for Murfley, and another for Salden, which conftitute the only remaining trace of the former connection of the Fortefcues with their Buckinghamfhire eftates. 1 It will be remembered that Sir Adrian Fortefcue left, befides his eldeft fon John, two fons, Thomas and Sir Anthony. As both of them, as well as two of the defendants of the latter, are mentioned by contemporary writers, I devote a fhort chapter to their memories. It is not known that any male reprefentative of this branch is in exiftence. Thomas Fortefcue, of Donnington, Sir Adrian's fecond fon, was born, as we have feen from his father's memorandum, at Shirborne in Oxfordfhire, on the 13th of May, 1534- He appears to be the author of a collection of eflays on various fubjects tranflated from the French, in a fmall 4to. volume of black letter, 190 folios. The title is : M The Forefte ; or Collection of Hiftories, no lefs profitable, then pleafant and necefiarie, dooen out of Frenche into Englime, by Thomas Fortefcue. Aut utile, aut jucundum, aut utrumque. Imprinted at London by Jhon Kyngfton for William Iones. 1 57 1 . And are to be foulde at his newe long flioppe at the Wefte ende of Poules." A fecond edition was printed in 1576 by " John Day dwelling over Alderfgate ; " and Drake, in " Shakefpeare and his Times," 2 mentions a third edition, publifhed in 1596. It was licenfed in 1570.' The tranflator tells us in his preface that the book "was written in three fundry tongues, in the Spanifh firft by Petrus MefTia, a Gentleman ot Seville, and thence doon into the Italian, and laft into the French by Claudius Gruget, late Citizen of Paris." Fortefcue dedicates his tranflation to Sir John Fortefcue, then John Fortefcue, Efquire, " Maifter of the Queenes Majefties Great Garderobe." On the back of the title-page is his own coat of arms, of which a fac-fimile is given in the following woodcut, the crefcent for difference marking the fecond fon. The fubjects of the treatifes are mod various, and fome of them very curious. The book is fomewhat rare, and, when found with uncropped margins, has fold for from 4/. to 5/. 15J. If it were not that the coat of arms almoft identifies Thomas Fortefcue of Donnington as the author, there would be fome probability in favour of afligning the work to Thomas Fortefcue of the Fallapit line, eldeft fon of another Thomas, who was a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, fo elected in 1557, and in 1566, as Petreian Fellow, was allowed to travel for four years to ftudy medicine and civil law in France and elfewhere, receiving an 1 This information is contained in a letter from the late Mr. Fortefcue-Turville to the late Mr. Fortefcue- Brickdale, dated February 22nd, 1857. 2 Shakefpeare and his Times, vol. i. p. 543. 3 Collectanea Hunteriana, Brit. Mus. Add. MS.; Collins's Stationers' Regifter, ii. lb. 424 Family of Salden. allowance of 61. 13 s. \d., befides the rent of his rooms. This term would bring his return to Oxford to the year 1570, the year before the firft publication of " The Forefte." 1 Thomas Fortefcue of Donnington fat in Parliament for feveral years in the latter part of his life, 2 being chofen member for Wallingford in the Parliaments of the 35th, 39th, and SL btrmte orta occttumt rariu% 3£aec tua prima, Ijaec antt'qua funt, non alia potto. 43rd years of Elizabeth. 3 He was prefent at the funeral of his brother, Sir John, in 1607. He held the office of Deputy in the Office of Alienations for twenty years under Cecil 1 For the above particulars I am indebted to the kindnefs of the Rector and Fellows of Exeter College, from whom I received a gift of a copy of the " Regiftrum Collegii Exonienfis," edited by the Rev. C. W. Boafe, and privately printed at Oxford in 1879. See alfo p. 28 of this volume, and the Pedigree of the Second Line of Fallapit. 2 Willis's Not. Pari. 3 His name appears in D'Ewes' Parliaments of Elizabeth, page 639. Family of Salden. Earl of Salisbury, and others; and in February, 1611, a few months before his death, he petitions James I. for leave to " nominate a perfon in his place." 1 He lived at Donnington near Newbury in Berkfhire, and is found by an Inquifition Poft Mortem, taken at Guildhall, to have had a mefluage in St. Dunftan's, Fleet Street, and lands in Donnington and Newbury. He died on Eafter-eve, 161 1, unmarried, aged feventy-feven years. By his will, dated 10th of May, 1608, he leaves his " fundry lands in Berks " to Sir William Fortefcue, fecond fon of his brother Sir John. The executors are his nephews Sir PVancis and Sir William Fortefcue. He defiresto be buried in the chancel of the church of Welford near Donning- ton, where he had erecled a very handfome monument to his mother, already figured in this volume.' 2 By entries in the Originalia Rolls, Thomas Fortefcue was found poftefled, in the 1 6th of Elizabeth, of the advowfon of the Church of Hodnett in Salop, and, with his brother-in- law Sir Thomas Bromley, of the Manor of Betton in that county. He alfo had the Manor of Charlton in Kent, two miles from Greenwich. "Queen Elizabeth, in 1573, granted a leafe of this manor to Anne, Lady Parry, who left it to Thomas Fortefcue." 3 On the 28th of June, 1 56 1 , the Queen grants to Thomas Fortefcue the cuftody (i.e. ward- ship) of Anne Thuringe and Urfule Thuringe. 4 The following letter written by him from his brother Sir John's houfe at the Great Wardrobe has furvived. Thomas Fortefcue to Sir Thomas Knyvett. Loving Brother w th my hartie comendacoiis unto yo'felf and my Sifter certifiinge the healthe of all frendes here hoping the likew lh you. Where I delyvered unto yo r brother M r . Edmunde Knyvctt a legier Booke of the Monaftery of S l . Albons upon his promife of Redelyvery of the fame. So it is that fithens my delivery of the faid Booke my honorable Brother hath purchafed dyverfe landes in the Countie of Buck w ch were parcell of the pofleflions of the faid monaftcrv and defirous to fee the booke hath willed to me to fende for the fame booke. I pray that the fame may be fent up fafe and brought to the Warderobe w' h as mutche expedient! as may be. I wrote heretofore unto you the laft nuchas terme for the fame but have not herde from you. And nowe having mett w ,h a gentilman yo r neighbour at Bracon Afhe I thought meete to write agayne praying yo r fpedy anfwere, And fo leaving you to the tuicon of thalmighte reft, Warderobe this xiiij th of February, 1599. 5 Yo r Loving Brother, Tho : Fortescue. 1 Calendar of State Papers, Green, 161 1-1618. 2 See the Will of Thomas Fortefcue in the Appendix. 3 Lyfons' Environs of London, iv. p. 326. 4 Pat. Rolls, Elizabeth. 6 Brit. Mus. Harl. MS. 4712, f. 309. 3 * 426 Family of Salden. Sir Anthony Fortescue. Anthony, third and youngeft fon of Sir Adrian Fortefcue, was born between the years l S3S a "d 1539; he was educated at Winchester School, where he is named among the fcholars who wrote verfes in honour of Edward VI. upon the young King's vifit there. They have been preferved with the reft of the poetry of the occafion, and are as follows: — Carmen in honor em Edw di . VI. 1 Gratulor adventum tibi Rex poflum nihil ultra Materia vires exfuperante meas. Non igitur longis verborum ambagibus utar, Hoc tantum poflum dicere gratus ades. Antonius Fortescuus. His tutor at Winchefter was one Mr. Ford, who afterwards, in Mary's reign, was by his means appointed to the living of Newbury in Berks, although much inclined to favour the doctrines of -the Reformation, " whereas Fortefcue was rather his fcholar in humanity than his follower in religion." 2 He married, about the year 1558, Katherine, daughter of Sir Geoffrey Pole of Lording- ton, fecond fon, by Sir Richard Pole, of Margaret Plantagenet Countefs of Salifbury, daughter of George Duke of Clarence, and finally heirefs of the Plantagenets. He was made comptroller of the houfehold to his wife's uncle, Cardinal Reginald Pole, 3 and was in much favour during the reign of Queen Mary, by whom he was knighted. 4 Upon the acceflion of Elizabeth, however, and the confequent ruin of the hopes of the Pope's adherents, he was much difpleafed, and was fo foolifh as to practife with conjurers to find out how long the Queen mould live; for which he was committed to prifon ; and for this and other indifcretions orders were given to Bonner, Bifhop of London, to profecute Fortefcue, and thofe concerned with him, in the Ecclefiaftical Court. Not warned by this danger, however, he foon after joined with the Poles in the confpiracy againft Elizabeth. "In 1 56 1," fays Rapin, "the Queen difcovered that Arthur Pole and his brother Edward, with Sir Anthony Fortefcue, who had married their fifter, began to form a party in the kingdom. Upon this intelligence they were fent to prifon on a charge of a great and dangerous confpiracy which had been difcovered in October, but was refolved not to be meddled with until Parliament fat." 5 1 Catalogues Cod. MS. Oxford, by Coxe, 1852, New College. ' Strype's Memorials, Mary, vol. iii. part i. p. 277. 3 Strype's Annals, vol. i. part i. p. 10. ' Biographia Brit., iii. p. 2003. 6 Rapin, vol. ii. book 17. Family of Salden. 427 The details of the plot are given in the Bill of Indictment, 1 in which were included, befides the two Poles and Anthony Fortefcue, three fubordinates, namely, John Preftall, Humfrey Barwycke, and Edwarde Cofyn, with one more, whofe name is not given. They are charged as falfe traitors and rebels, with comparing not only to depofe the Queen, but alfo her death and deftruction, and to fet up the Scottifh Queen Mary as Queen of the realm. Their plans were to go into Flanders, and there to proclaim Arthur Pole to be Duke of Clarence; thence to pafs into France, and to treat with the Duke of Guife for marriage between the Queen of Scots and Edmund Pole (Arthur being already married); and for a force of 5000 men to land in Wales, and proclaim Mary as Queen. They were to folicit through Goldewell, Bifhop of St. Afaph, then at Rome, the help of the Pope, promifing in return to reftore his religion in England. It is found in the indictment, "that Preftall and Cofyn did invocate a wicked fpryte, and demanded of him the beft way to bring all their treafons to pafs; that Anthony Fortefcue did open unto the French and Spanifh ambaffadors the faid traitorous devices by the confent of Arthur Pole, requefting them to hand letters to the French king and the Duke of Guife," praying for their aid. " That the faid Anthony Fortefcue did hire a boat to be brought unto St. Olave's Stairs nigh unto London Bridge, to convey the fame Anthony Fortefcue, Arthur Pole, and the other confpirators to a Flemifh hoye being upon the river Thames fix miles beyond Gravefend, to the intent to tranfport them into Flanders, and that they laid into the faid boat divers armures, and certain munition for war, and fums of money, and other things ncceflary for their faid journey ; and alfo remained in a certain inn called the Dolphyn for opportunity to be conveyed to the faid hoy." Strype fays that the plot was fomented and managed by the French and Spanifh am- bafTadors ; and Cecil aflerted at the time that De Quadra, the reprefentative of Spain, had encouraged Pole and Fortefcue; to which the ambaflador replied, "that he had nothing to do with them or their follies." 1 A good contemporary account of the tranfaction is contained in fome corrcfpondence publifhed in Wright's " Queen Elizabeth and her Times." Sir William Cecil writes to Sir Thomas Smith, January 14, 1562: — "The Pooles and Fortefcugh mail be arayned this terme ; " and again, on the 27th of the next month (February): " Yefterday wer condemned two Pooles, Fortefcugh; one Spencer, and Byngham, fervants to the Lord Haftings of Loughborow, and one Barwyk. Fortefcugh confefTed all, and fo was attainted." 3 1 Strype, Annals of Elizabeth, vol. i. part i. p. 555. * Froude's England, vol. vii. p. 427. 3 Wright's Elizabeth, vol. i. pp. 127, 129. 428 Family of Said en. On the fame day, Sir John Mafon writes to Sir Thomas Challoner (at that time am- baffador in Spain) : " Yefterdaye the elder of the Poolls and the fecond fon, with Anthony Fortelkewe, and four others were arrained. at [Weftminfter] Hall, and were there charged that they meant to go into France, and to ufe the aid of the Duke of Guife for the making levy of fix thoufand men, to carry the fame in May next coming into Wales ; and then proclaiming the Scottilh Queene, Queen of England, and Arthur Pole, Duke of Clarence, to do their beft to bring the Scottifh Queen to the Crown ; of which matter they were openly convicted." Their only defence was that they meant to attempt nothing in the Queen's lifetime, who by conjuration they had found mould not live pafling " the next fpring." The reft of the matter was not denied ; and. Fortefkewe confefied the whole without trial. Elizabeth, with much clemency, fpared their lives, moved in Fortefcue's cafe to this lenient courfe by her efteem for his brother Sir John, 1 who interceded in his behalf ; but kept them prifoners in the Tower, where the two Poles remained until their deaths. Fortefcue, after fome considerable time, we do not know how long, was releafed. In the year 1796, 2 when fome alterations were being made in the Beauchamp Tower, the following traces of thefe unhappy prifoners were found fcratched on the walls of the room, apparently with a fharp piece of iron : — I. H. S. A paffage perillus makethe a Port pleafaunt. A 0 1568. Arthur Poole M. fuas 37. In another place : — Deo fervire Penetentiam inire Fatoque obedire Regnare eft. A Poole. 1564. I. H. S. Alfo by Edmund Poole, thus : — I. H. S. Dio femin in lachrimis in exultatione meter. JE. 21. E. Poole 1562. JE. 27. E. P. A°. 1568. Biog. Brit. iii. 2002. 2 Archseologia, vol. xiii. p. 74. Family of Salden. In the regifter of the Tower Chapel, from 1565 to 1578, is found : — M r . Arthur Poole buried in the Chappel. M r . Arthur Poole's brother buried in the Chappel. Thefe are fad and fhort records of long years of mifery. I find little more to narrate of Sir Anthony; he was alive in the year 161 1 when his brother Thomas died, being mentioned in the will of the latter, dated May 10, 1608, in thefe words :— " Item my wille and mynde is all fuch plate, houfehold ftuffe, and bookes as are belonginge unto Anthony Fortefcue my brother, be fafely kept, and delivered to the ufe of my faid brother." 1 Although this language would apply to Sir Anthony, if he were from any caufe in a foreign country, it rather favours the fuppofition that he was exiled from England for his life. His children 2 were Anthony, who lived at Lordington in SufTex, married to a daughter of the brother of Overton, Bimop of Coventry ; John, married to Ellen, daughter of Ralph Henflow, of Barrald in Hampfhire ; and George, born in 1554, and died in 1634, unmarried. The latter received James I. at his country houfe, on which occafion knighthoods were conferred by the King as before mentioned. 1 The only iflue of the aforefaid Anthony known to us, is a fon, alfo Anthony, who, in the reign of Charles I., was appointed by Charles, Duke of Lorraine his Rcfident at the Englifh Court. He acted in that capacity for feveral years, until 1644, when we find him receiving an order from the Houfe of Commons, requiring him to quit the kingdom within ten days; and one from the Houfe of Peers, defiring him " to depart out of the Parlia- ment's quarters" within the fame period. He protefted againft thefe orders as too fudden and fevere " to be fent unto me the public minifter of a foreign Prince," but without much effect ; for his goods and papers were feized by the order of the Houfe of Commons, and his fecretary and coufin, George Fortefcue, was imprifoncd for fixteen weeks. On the 1 6th of October, 1644, the Commons ordered his goods and papers to be reftored, and George Fortefcue to be releafed ; the Refident to quit the kingdom in twenty days. The caufe alleged in the orders for this feverity was the inconvenience of an F.nglifhman acting for a foreign prince ; but as he had been allowed to remain for many years, we muft aflign as the real reafon the difpofition of the Duke of Lorraine to favour the King's caufe 1 Will in Dolors' Commons, proved June 2, 1611. Sec the Appendix. 2 Pedigree in Harl. MSS. 5871 ; and a Pedigree belonging to Karl Fortefcue. 3 There is an examination, taken in 1585, of Anthony Fortefcue before Richard l.cwkcnor, Jufticc ol the Peace for SufTex, on fufpicion of having aflifted Philip Earl of Arundel, el deft fon of the Duke of Norfolk, to quit the kingdom. See the General Appendix. Tor George Fortefcue, fee his epitaph in the Appendix to this chapter. 43° Family of Sa/c/en. againft that of the Parliament, knowing that a few years later he was found to be in treaty with Queen Henrietta to fave Charles, her hufband's, life. Anthony Fortefcue was alive in 1659, wnen his couiin George, before named, made his will, in which his name is mentioned. As the papers and letters relating to the difmiffal of the Lorraine Refident have never, fo far as I am aware, been printed, they are given here. Papers relating to Anthony Fortefcue Refident for the Duke of Lorraine. 1 Die Mercurii 1 6° O£io : 1644. It is this day ordered by the Commons Houfe of Parliament, that M 1 '. Anthony Fortefcue fhall have the Goods and papers reftored unto him, that hath beene taken from him, by any Comittee, or any Authorized by any Comittee, and that George Fortefcue his fervant bee difcharged from reftrainte & reftored unto him ; And hee is hereby enjoyned to quitt the Kingdome, within thefe 20 dayes att furtheft. That the Duke of Lorraine having fhewed all frendfhip Noblenes & Curtefie to the Englifh nation hath written twice feverallyto either Houfe touching Anthony Fortefcue Efquire his refident here and that theire Lo pps . thinke it moft Juft & reafonable to returne his Highnes an anfwere to which end they have p'pared the fame according to that which they conceive to have beene the fence of both houfes formerly. That befides thofe civilities ever exprefted by the Parliament of England and the Nation alfoe to forraigne Princes, which requires them to fend an anfwere to the faid two Severall Letters fent to them from this Prince, there is likewife now falen out an neceffity of writing to him in refpe£l that the faid M r . Fortefcue dares not returne over to the faid duke till he recall him, and though he hath written to his faid Mafter for his leave to returne unto him, yet he hath coinanded him to continue here till he may receive an anfwere of his former Letters fent to the Two houfes of Parliament, and thereby underftand that it is theire defire that he fhould recall backe the faid M'. Fortefcue. That the faid Duke of Lorraine fent over hither with his firft Letters, one Mounfieur Talart a gentleman of Lorraine who hath ftaied here neere upon fix moenths expecting an anfwere, for which he doth now earneftly prefle being to returne to the faid Prince his Soveraigne Lord & Mafter. Their Lo ps . defire therefore is, that the houfe of Commons would concurre with them in fending this Letter in anfwere to both the duke of Lorraines and that the fame may be fubfcribed or figned by the Speaker pro tempore of the Houfe of Peeres, and the Speaker of the Houfe of Commons, And that the goods that have been taken from the faid M r . Fortefcue may at laft be reftored to him accord- ing to the orders of both houfes of Parliament long fince made. My Lord, I receaved two feverall Orders from the Hono ble . Houfes of Parlament, firft from the houfe of Comons an Order was brought mee by a Sarjant at armes to depart the Realme within ten dayes, the next day I receaved from the Houfe of Peeres an other to departe out of the Parlam ts . quarters, 1 From Harl. MS. 160, Brit. Mus. Family of Salden. 43 1 within ten dayes, both Orders, as I conceave, too fevere to bee fent vnto mee, a publique Minifter of a forrayne Prince, whofe fervant can no way difpofe of him felfe, or leave the (ration where his Mafter comanded him to (land : Yet fince thefe Orders proceeded from a Power unrentable by mee (uther- wife then by my will) I chofe rather of the two to embrace the Banifhment where I fhould find pro- tection of a gracious Mafter, then to caft myfelfe into fuch partes of the Realme where I can have no fubfiftance ; And fince I can not poflibly goe into thofe partes without periftiing, nor out of the Realme (with any concurrance of myne) Yet if the hono b,e . houfes infift upon my Baniihment, (which is a thing unhard of) my humble requeft is that I may have my goods reftored mee, and that I may bee foe fent out as I may not falle into the handes of my Mafters Enemyes w' 1 ' now ly upon the Seaes, and as I heare, expect mee. But if the refolution of the Hono Mf . houfes bee altered (as I hope it is) and that I (hall bee permitted to ftay, my requeft is (and this I afke in my Mafters name) that fome publique acte may parte from both houfes whereby the fcandall of my Baniftiment (foe much divulged) may be taken away, and I remayne heere in fecurity from fuch affronts as have bin formerly offered mee. And thus expecting the refolve of the Hono ble . houfes to this juft demand of myne, I reft Your Lordftiipps Moft humble Servant, Ant : Fortescue, Rcfident for his Highenefle of Lorraine. Anthony Fortcfcue to Sir Simons D'Ewss.* * * * and if with in the fpace allowed by the fayd tearme given mee, I (hall not hcere from the . . . . then I will depart into the King's quarters that my ftay heere may not give the Parlament any farther diftaft. The capitall exception againft mee, as I underftand, is that I am an Englifti man, if a forrayne Prince (hall grace our Nation in preferring it before his owne fhall it bee maligned by my owne Country ? A hard cafe and much to the dilhonour of the Englifti Nation, and I hope in that high Councell of Parlament that argument fliall clayme noe force. Withall I humbly requeft them that the lofles and charges I have bin at, both by my two fervants imprifonment, the one remayning in prifon 16 weekes the other brought moft wrongfully to the publique difgrace to hold up his hand at the barr, may be repayed unto mee, of which Juftice I very much confide. And I (hall in the nfecution of your noble refpecles towards his Highnefle my mafter bee ever moft ambitious in the expreflion of Yo r moft humble & obliged fervant, Anthony Fortescue. To my much Hon" 1 , frend Sir Symons Dewes K\ of the Hono 1 ' 1 ''. howfe of Coitions. Received Odt. 24, Thurfd' 1644. A fragment of a feal of red wax remains attached, bearing, on a (hield, a bend engrailed, between two bendlets. The beginning of this letter is damaged. 432 Family of Sal den. Anthony Fortefcue to Sir Simons Z)' Ewes. Sir, I am in hope that to morrow the Lords will fend the 3 rd time unto your Honorable howfe for a difpatch in my bufinefle by their concurring w' the Order which theyr Lordfhips have made ; Thefe are therfore earneftly to befeech you that you will move in my bufinefle when it fhall come into your howfe and that you will make the Hono ble . Howfe as fenfible of the delay in this point as I perceive y r felfe are, who I mult needes fay have fhewed mee more noble favours then I can meritt ; only I muft hope the Duke my Matter will take fuch notice of your noble refpect to him in my poore perfon, that for your fake alone, hee will forbeare to take offence of the remiflenefle of y r Hon ble . howfe to doe his Highnefle right by reparations made unto my felfe his publicke minifter. And I prefume my patience in not writing to his Highnefle the leaft complaynt as yet will bee one motive to the Hono ble . howfe to difpatch my bufinefle the fooner, Elfe I muft of neceflity informe his Highnefle what hath part, which yet I muft needes blufh to write beeing an Englifh man as I am Sure your noble felfe hath done to fee foe high affronts vnto foe greate a Prince paffe foe longe unpunifhed, and mee foe long neglected after y e Lords notice given unto y r Hono ble . howfe of thefe abufes, to have my goods feazed, my man imprifoned, and my howfe ftill guarded. Whome yet theyr honors have avowed to bee a publicke minifter to a Soverayne Prince. Sir in briefe as you are the only that have expreffed your deepe fenfe heerof foe I muft rely only upon you to procure a difpatch in the bufinefle as well for the honor of your howfe, and our nation indeed as for refpe£t vnto Sir, Your thrife humble Servant, Anthony Fortescue, Refident for his Highnefle the Duke of Lorraine. AddreJJed : — " To his noble friend S r . Simons D'ueys Knight, a member of the Hono b,e . howfe of Commons, thes prefent." A Tres hault et Tres puijfant Prince Charles par la grace de Dieu Due de Lorraine &c. A Bruxelles. Tres haut et tres puissant Prince. Les Paires et comuns du Parlement d'Angleterre aflamblesa Weftminfter ayans recu diverfes lettres de voftre Altefle par lefquelles elle declare davoir commis le fieur Anthoine Fortefcue fon Refident aupres fa ma te . de la grande Bretaigne et quelle defire le dit fieur de Fortefcue eftre continue dans le mefme Employ : les Paires et Communs nous ont commande de remercier in premier chef tres affectionement voftre Altefle de 1'honneur quelle leur a faicT: puis vous aflurer quils feront tous prompts de conceder a tel miniftre publique quy fera Envoiede la part de voftre Altefle les mefmes Libertes et privileges dont jouiflent ceux des autres Princes, pourveu quil ne foit fubje6t de ce Royaume comme eft le fieur de Fortefcue, lequel ils defirent eftre Employe de voftre Altefle en quelque autre endroict Eftant come fubje£t de fa Ma te . incapable deftre receu et trai£le de Refident et miniftre publique d'un Prince Eftranger, Nous fomes De Voftre Altefle Tres humbles ferviteurs. De Weftminftre, ce I2 e . April 1645. Family of Said en. 433 Messieurs, Ayant appris que vous defirez avoir pour mon Refidenten Angletterre quelque qui ne foit du d'pays et q'un autre de mes fujets ou autre Nation que je pourrois cy apres y envoier vous feroit plus agreable J'ay bien voulu vous donner parole que Lors qu'y envoiray un autre Refident, ce Sera de mes Sujets ou d'autre Pays que d'Angletterre. Cependant Je vous priedebien traiter Le S r . de Fortefcu mon Refident en Angletterre eflabli dans cett charge de puis plufjeurs annees, le laiflant jouir et ufer des privileges doubs a fa qualite, a ma con- fideration et ordonnant que la Sentence donnee pour la reftitution de ce qui luya ete pris, foit mife en execution, C'eft ce que j'efpere de voftre juftice, fur l'aflurance que je vous bailie que mon dit Refident ne fera rien qui puifTe vous prejudicier, Et que Je demeure Meffieurs Voftre afte&ione a vous fervir, Ch. Lorraine. De Bruxelles le \* May 1645. Of the fecond fon of Sir Anthony, John Fortefcue, ftyled "of Lordington," the feat of his grandfather Sir Geoffrey Pole, and of his wife Ellen, the following incident relating to the Gunpowder Plot is preferved in a manufcript at Ufhaw College, Durham. Relatio quorumdam Catholicorum de Patre Gerardo Jefuitd. M Narrationem hanc fequentem Nos infrafcripti accepimus a Viro quodam Catholico et fide digno qui illam nobis narravit partim ex ore perilluftris D. Dili Joannis Fortefcue, partim ex ore conjugis ejus Dna Helena? Fortefcue, qui Audomari diem fuum fandte obiere. Pater Joannes Gerardus Societatis Jefu Sacerdos venit ad domum dicli Domini Joannis Fortefcue quae fita erat prope monafterium olim S' Dominici, Londini, vulgo, Black-Fryers, et oppor- tunitatem nadtus dum Dnus Fortefcue abeflet, inftantcr petiit a Dna Fortefcue ut cubiculum aliquod haberet domi fuas. At ilia, femper mihi gratus eft adventus tuus: at ille refpondit fe velle cubiculum privatum ubi aliqui ilium convenient qui cum illovideri libenter nollent. Ilia prudens quidem fcemina non bene digerebat ilia verba fcilicet quofdam ilium frequenta- turos qui cum illo libenter videri nollent, petiit itaque ab illo quinam illi effent. Refpondit ille viros efle prajftantes, gencrofos, atque Catholicos, adhuc vero ilia urgente quinam eflent nomi- navit Catfbeum, Perfeum, Vintorum, Digbeum et plures alios conjurationis pulveraria* confcios, nec prater conjuratores nominavit quemquam. Turn Dna Fortefcue, quofdam, inquit, ex illis aliquantulum novi, ut Catfbeum, Vintorum. Catfbeum, inquit, nunquam probavi nec mores ejus, cum sit vitas admodum laxa; : quare petiit a patre Gerardo ut ignofceret illi quod in abfentia mariti fui denegaret acceflum horum virorum ad domum fuam. Hoc refponfo accepto abiit Pater Gerardus, defcenditque in domum in vicinio pofitam Domini Doret, ubi tota familia aberat muliere tantum excepta quae domus curam gerebat : cum hac egit et obtinuit Pater Gerardus ut viri illi Nobiles prius nominati, ca-terique conjurationis pulveraria- participes privatim ilium convenirent in ilia domo, quod poftea publice probatum eft, etiam teftibus ipfis pincemis Tabernia." adjacentis qui illos omnes quotidie ingrcdientes et egredientes 3 ^ 434 Family of Salden. confpexerant. At patefacta poftmodum conjuratione et Patre Gerardo nominatim publicis per totum Regnum ediftis profcripto, Pater Gerardus fuppofitia. barba et capillamento con- fido domura Dni Fortefcue adit et de improvifo abfque ulla praevia notitia petit a Dno Fortefcue ut in domum fuam ilium reciperet quod plane nefciret ubi abfconderet caput fuum : quern intuens Dnus Fortefcue plenus dolore ait, Neminem habes quem perdas praeter me et meam familiam." Translation of the Foregoing. A Statement of certain Catholics concerning Father Gerard a Jefuit. We whofe names are hereto fubfcribed have received from a Catholic worthy of credit the following ftatement, taken partly from the lips of the very illuftrious Mr. John For- tefcue and partly from thofe of his wife Miftrefs Ellen Fortefcue, who both died in fanctity at St. Omer. Father John Gerard, a prieft of the Society of Jefus, came to the houfe of the aforefaid Mr. John Fortefcue in London, near the old Dominican monaftery, commonly called Black-Friars, and having found an opportunity during the abfence of Mr. Fortefcue, intreated Mrs. Fortefcue to grant him a lodging in her houfe ; to which fhe replied that fhe fhould always be glad to welcome him there. He, however, anfwered that he wanted a private lodging, where fome perfons who did not wifh to be feen in his company could meet him unobferved. She, being a prudent woman, did not relifh this mention of perfons likely to come there who did not wifh their viflts to be known, and afked him who they were. Gerard replied that they were excellent men, of noble birth, and Catholics ; and at laft, upon her prefling him to fay who they were, named Catefby, Percy, Winter, Digby, and feveral more, all without exception implicated in the Gunpowder Plot. Upon this Mrs. Fortefcue faid that fhe knew fome of them flightly, namely, Catefby and Winter, and that as to Catefby fhe difapproved of his habits and loofe way of life, and therefore reqiiefted Father Gerard to excufe her if fhe declined in her hufband's abfence to admit them into her houfe. Father Gerard receiving this anfwer, proceeded to a houfe in the neighbourhood belong- ing to Mr. Doret, when all the family were abfent, except a woman who was in charge of the houfe. From her he afked and obtained leave for the noble perfons above named and others concerned in the Gunpowder Plot to meet him fecretly there ; a fa<5t afterwards proved on the evidence of the fervants of a neighbouring tavern who faw them paffing in and out daily. Neverthelefs, after the difcovery of the plot, and when Father Gerard had been publickly denounced all over the kingdom, he fuddenly appeared at Mr. Fortefcue's houfe, difguifed by a falfe beard and hair, and afked him to take him in, as he knew not where to hide his head. Mr. Fortefcue, much grieved, looked at him and faid, "Have you no one to ruin but me and my family ?" Family of Said en. 435 The letter here given, addrefled to Robert Devereux, the unfortunate Earl of Eftex, by John Fortefcue, {hows that feveral years before the great plot he was already fufpefted of harbouring the Jefuits : — John Fortefcue to the Earl of EJfex. 1 Right honorable and my finguler good Lo. as I have many tymes and in many per- fons, admired yo r noble nature and clement difpofition fo nowe muft my poor felf maeke happie triall, an unknowen man to yo r honor and unto whome I had never caufe to devote any of my poore fervices, Yet nowe Right noble Erie fuche are my extremities as w ,h out fome honorable regarde, my poore and loyall minde to her Mati and the ftaete might haply be called in fome dowghtfull queftion, And now I moft humbly befiche yo' Lop : thus far to con- ceve of me herin y' I crave no favor ether of her Mati or of any peere w th in this Realme yf any unnaturall or difloyall fact can be proved againfl: me ether in harboringe maintaininge or abettinge ether prift or Jefuit, and forbidden by her highnes lawes. And in this ferche at my howfe (my felf beinge in the Countrey) There was nothinge founde w th in my commande in all my howfe, but fuche things as my lewde and wretched butler had locked in a defke of his w lh in that office fo farr from my knolledge (on my Salvation) as is heven from yerthe And nothinge Right honorable can torment me more, then that her Mati fhould think me fo undutifull in whofe fervice I have bine imployd thes 21 yers, and never yet tutched w th any blott of fuche diforder, and not lickly I would bereve my felf of that benefytt w ch hathe maintained my self my wyfeand children thes many ycres, And in w' h fpaece yf I have retayned my confeiens at all, her Mati : hathe bine no loofer by yt, nor my felf God knowith any greate gainer, And thus deere Erie way my caufe as yt is and lend me no more but yo r honorable and indifferent cenfure and I deiire no more, a treafure I think yo r ho : never refufed to graunt to any gentillman, yf some great caufe w lh ftoode yow not, And I would to God her Mati might underftand that I have a farr greater defire to Joyne unto her highnes loyall and fervifable harts then to fuffer my owne to perifh in his dewty, pardon my good Lo: this excedinge bouldnes yt is my trobled and palfionet mind w' h enforced me herunto, And thus longe may yo r lop live, greater ftill yo r honor, yf greater yt may be, And in all humillity I taeke my leve This 8 of Marche 1 597. Yo' honorable lopps moft bounde in all dewtv John Fortescue. To the Right honorable the Erie of Eflex Lo. Martiall of England et cet. and one of her Mats moft honorable previe councell. 1 The original letter is in the Hatfield Collection of MSS. 43 6 Family of Salden. John Fortefcue had iffue a daughter Elizabeth, married about 1600, to Sir John Beau- mont of Grace Dieu in Leicefterfhire, created a baronet in 1626, and died in 1628, leaving Sir John his fon and heir, born in 1607, and another fon Sir Thomas Beaumont, 1 and three daughters; he left alfo one fon George, an author of fome repute in his day, who wrote in Latin with much elegance. George Fortefcue was educated at Rome, but appears while ftill young to have fpent fome time in the College at Douay. His principal work was a fmall volume of EfTays on various fubjects, written in Latin, dated " Londini Calend. Febr. m.dc.xxx.," but printed at Douay in that year, entitled " Ferias Academicas." His other writings which have been printed appear to be poetical ; one, which I have not feen, is entitled, "The Soul's Pilgrimage to Heavenly Hierufalem," 2 publifhed in 1650, 4to. He wrote, according to the fafhion of the time, commendatory verfes upon the works of his friends, which are printed with the works; namely, on the Poems of Sir John Beaumont, who was his brother-in-law ; on Sir Thomas Hawkins's " Tranflation of the Odes of Horace," 1625; on River's "Devout Rhapfodies," 1648. 3 He has alfo verfes in " The Tongues Virtuis," a work of which I know nothing. The full title of "Ferias Academicas" is: "Ferias Academicas. Auclore Georgio de Forti Scuto Nobili Anglo. Duaci, Ex Officina Marci Wyon, fub figno Phcenicis. 1 \ >> M.DC.XXX. Y> TM n £7Ti T«f. It is dedicated Florentijfimis Academicis Romanis, and efpecially to Cardinal Barberini, the Director of the Roman Academy ; and has an eulogy prefixed by Matthew Kellifon, faid to be Principal of the College at Douay. It is in one volume, 1 2mo. The work is defcribed in the " Delights and Monuments of Nathaniel Bacon." 4 This was Sir Nathaniel Bacon, Knight of the Bath, an eminent painter, half-brother to the Chancellor Francis Bacon, whom Fortefcue, in his effay entitled " Delicias Baconi Brumenfes," celebrating the gardens and paintings at Broome, in Suffolk, where Bacon lived and painted, addreffes as Nobilijfime, In- geniofiffime^ Amiciffime Nathaniel ; 5 and by whom he is ftyled in return, Ornatijfime Fortefcue. In " Collectanea Hunteriana" it is fuggefted that " it was probably his Catholic learning which recommended him to Bolton to be placed in his original lift of the members of the Academe Royal." He was alfo eminently Roman Catholic by defcent, through his relationfhip to the Poles, which is alluded to by Kellifon in his eulogy prefixed to the Ferias, as follows : — Eulogium defumptum ex qtiadam ejus epiftola. Quod vero attinet ad Ferias Academicas Perilluftris Domini D. Georgii Fortefcu ; quarum manufcriptum exemplar mihi nuper oftendifti, ejufmodi fane funt, ut miram ingenii 1 Will of George Fortefcue, 1659. 2 Fly-leaf note in my copy of Feriae Academicae. 3 Nichols's Leicefterfhire, vol. iii. part ii. p. 656; Collectanea Hunteriana, Add. MS., 24,489, fol. 13, in Brit. Mus. ; Gent. Magazine, xxviii. p. 382, 1847. 4 Collectanea Hunteriana. 3 Feriae Academicae, pp. 19, 26. Family of Salden. All fuavitatem, egregiam orationis vim, multiplicem denique cognitionetn in Authore teftetur. Scripfit quidam de Reginaldo Polo in haec verba : " Cum eloquently et philoJophi. ^ "S T, U &f f rre d '^J^fUfn^t les landed k & ficomte 8! Marie Vih 1 Families of Normandy. 449 Monfieur de Magny thus proceeds : — " Le nom des fires Fortefcu, alias Fortefcue, Fortecu, olim Fortefcot, Fortefcut, eft inconteftablement l'un des plus vieux, des plus nobles, et des plus renommes de l'ancienne Normandie ; une longue tradition chevalerefque s'attache a ce nom antique. " La race des Fortefcu a d'autant plus de merite aux yeux d'un heraldifte, qu'elle negligea de porter un nom de terre, furnom pompeux qui n'etait pour les nouveaux venus du XV e fiecle qu'un moyen fpecieux pour deguifer la pauvrete de leur extraction plebeienne. Les Fortefcu, comme les Bauvet, les Marefcot, les Baudran, les Chabot, les Tournemine, etc. conferverent tout fimplement leur nom du X c . au XV e . Siecle, et dans les fuivants on les voit toujours figurer fous le fimple nom de Fortefcu, a la bataille de Haftings (1066), a la croifade de Robert Courte-heuze, et de Godefroy de Bouillon ' a la cour fouveraine de l'Echiquier de Normandie (1388-92), fous la domination Anglaife (Regne de Henri VI. d'Angleterre, et de Charles VII. de Valois), fous le nom de Fitz-Fortefcu (avec l'adjon&ion Saxonne) ou fimplement Fortefcu, aux champs celebres d'Azincourt en 141 5, puis en 1666 a la recherche des Nobles des bailliages et Elections de Vire et de Carentan. " Monfieur de Chamillard, Intendant de Juftice a Caen, les declare Nobles de vieille race, et ordonne l'infcription de leur nom au role legal de Gentilfhommes de la Generalite de Caen." In the year 1463, when the Prefident Monfaut inveftigated the claims of the Norman families who ranked as noble, the Fortefcues were declared to belong to the " ancienne noblefTe," mowing a noble defcent of at leaft four generations, which the cuftom of Nor- mandy required.' 2 The lands, fiefs, and refidences of the Fortefcues were all in the fame part of the Duchy, that diftrict of Lower Normandy which lies between St. Lo to the fouth and Valognes to the north including all, or nearly all, the denominations of their eftates; while by far the greater part are to be found near the town of St. Lo and Carentan, and on the fhores of the eftuary through which the Vire and the Douve pafs into St. George's Channel. It was in the parifhes of St. Marie du Mont north of Carentan, and of Mefnil-Angot, and Le Defert, to the fouth of that town, that the families of which we have mod: knowledge were eftablifhed. M. de Magny has fupplied me with a copy of a document of the date of 1 552, giving a genealogy of the anceftors of" Meflire Richard Fortefcu, Chevalier," the holder of a fief in the parilh of Mefnil-Angot, which enables us to trace the defcent of the Fortefcues from the period of the Englifh Conqueft. The document was in the cuftody of the " Juge de la NoblefTe, et point d'honneur," and the copy of which M. de Magny's is a tranfeript is figned by tt Du Londel Confeiller rapporteur." It follows here in full : — 1 La Chefnaye des Bois, Diet, de la NoblefTe, vol. vi. 3 M 2 Ogilvy, vol. i. p. 125 (MS.). Families of Normandy. Information d'ancienne Noblejfe d' extraction de nom et d'armes, faites en 1552 pour MeJJire Richard Fortefcu Chevalier , homme noble, tenant fief de la Paroijfe du Mefnil, Ele£lion de Carentan au Pays de Coftentin devants les Confeillers du Roy Notre Sire, et Jes Elus en cette Election. Porte : d'argent, a trois bandes d'azur ; et crie : Fortefcu. Villiame Fortefcu Chevalier feut a la Conquefte avec le Due de Normandie. Robert Fortefcu Chevalier fit le Pelerinage des faint lieux avec le Due Robert Court- heuze, et Godefroy de Bouillon. 1 Filiation Noble. I. Richard Fortefcu, vivant 1160. II. Guillaume Fortefcu, alias Fortefcut, bachelier, vivant en l'an 1203. III. Robert Fortefcu Chevalier-Banneret, vivant 1239 ; il epoufa Noble fille Jehanne de RufTy Picot. IV. Henri Fortefcu, Ecuyer=Ydette Merlet. V. Charles Fortefcu Chevalier 1 3 14— Marguerite Guillots. VI. Anthoine Fortefcu, Noble. 2 VII. Jean Fortefcu Chevalier, vivant 1388 ; il epoufa Adrienne du Foffe, fille Noble. VIII. Meffire Williame de Fortefcu Chevalier tue a la bataille d'Azincourt le Vendredi 25 Oclobre 1415; et MefTire Johan Fortefcu Chevalier, dit Fitz-Fortefcu, vivant en l'an 1420, marie a Noble fille Marie de Perfy, dont — IX. Guillaume Fortefcu dit Triftan, Ecuyer, marie en 1450, a Noble fille Jacqueline de Baufly. X. Jacques Fortefcu Ecuyer, 1483 — Francoife Euldes, dont — XI. Triftan Fortefcu ChevalierrzAnne d'Ouray. XII. Richard Fortefcu Chevalier, 1 545zzCatherine le Gay, dont advinrent — XIII. Jacques Fortefcu (i ier ) et Guillaume Fortefcu Enfants foubs age du dit Richard impetrant. Collatione, &c. Signe, Du Londel. M. de Magny continues this pedigree from other fources, thus, beginning with the above-named " Jacques i ier et Guillaume Fortefcu," fons of Richard Fortefcu : — 1 . Jacques (I.) Fortefcu, auteur de la branche de Vire. 2. Guillaume Fortefcu, auteur de la branche de St. Lo. 1 M. de Magny, in his complete pedigree, introduces between this Robert Fortefcu and Richard Fortefcu, living in 1 160, "Guillaume Fortefcu Chevalier, dont Robert Fortefcu Chevalier, qui fut heritier de Guillaume Fortefcu, Chevalier Banneret," but gives no authorities. * Seigneur de Mefnil-Angot (De Magny). Families of Normandy. 45 1 Branche de Vire. Jacques (II.) Fortefcu Chevalier, epoufa N dont il eut — Guillaume Fortefcu Ecuyer, qui epoufa N dont il eut deux fils. i° Jacques (III.) Fortefcu de la ParoifTe du Pleflis-Grimoult, Eledion de Vire, maintenu Noble en 1666 par M. de Chamillard. 2°. Marc-Antoine Fortefcu Ecuyer, vivant en 1666, de la Paroifle de Maifroy-fur- Ifignay. Branche de St. Lo. Guillaume Fortefcu laiffa, d'une alliance inconnue, deux fils : — i° Nicholas qui fuit. 2° Jean Fortefcue Pere de (A.) Michel Fortefcu Ecuyer, 1 du Defert, de la fergeanterie et de la Paroifle du Horn met fur Carentan, Noble en 1 666, infcrit au Catalogue des Nobles de la Generalite de Caen. Nicholas Fortefcue Ecuyer, marie a Noble Demoifelle Catherine Cadot des Seignieurs de Gerville, de la Paroifle de Mefnil-Angot fur Carentan ; maintenu Noble en 1 666 ; et infcrit au Catalogue officiel des Nobles de la Generalite de Caen ; il laifla deux fils favoir. i° Jean Nicholas qui fuit. 2° Leonor ou Leonard Fortefcu Ecuyer, Seigneur du Chefne, puine, (ParoifTe du Mefnil-Angot) maintenu noble de vielle race, 1 666, et infcrit au role des Nobles de Caen; fit enregiftrer fes armoiries a l'armorial general officiel de 1696 au Regiftre de Caen, fo. 11:, " d'argent, a trois bandes d'azur." 2 Jean Nicholas de Fortefcu, de la Paroifle du Mefnil-Angot Ecuyer, Seigneur du Taillis, epoufa Noble Demoifelle Anne de Minfant ou MifFant, des Comtes de la Bigne, famille Noble d'ancienne race. II eut pour fils : — A. Jacques Jofeph de Fortefcue Ecuyer, Seigneur du Tailly qui fit enregiftrer fes amies a Caen, fo. 256, "d'argent, a trois bandes d'azur." AA. Son petit fils Paul de Fortefcu comparut a TafTemblee de la Noblefle pour les Etats Generaux au bailliage de St. Lo en 1789 (voir les liftes Electorates de 1789). Sa fille Barbe Nicole Albertine de Fortefcu, epoufa, le 1 2 Juin, 1787, le Baron Jacques Rodolphe Titon du Tillet Capitaine, puis Conful de Suede a Padoue. Je foufigne ancien Eleve de l'Ecole Imperiale des Chartes, Directeur de la Bibliotheque Heraldique et des Archives de la Noblefle, certifie que la prefcnte genealogie de la famille Fortefcue a ete redigee tant fur les documents et titres originaux coiifervees dans les Archives Bib!. Imp. Armorial General, Normandic, fol. 241, No. 58, Bureau de Valogrics. Ibid., Caen, Cabinet de Titres, vol. 388, fol. 93. 45 2 Families of Normandy. de la Bibliotheque Heraldique , que fur ceux qui exiftent dans les depots publics de Paris et de Rouen. Paris, le 26 me Oclobre, 1867. Le Directeur de la Bibliotheque Heraldique et des Archives de la Nobleffe, V te de Magny. Soon after the laft of the foregoing dates, 1789, the Fortefcues, who were looked upon as ariftocrats, feem to have almoft difappeared from the province, by emigration and the guillotine, in the frightful times of the all-effacing Revolution. I have a letter from M. le Comte de Bonvouloir, obtained from him, at my requeft, by M. Gabriel Ogilvy, author of a "Nobiliare de la Normandie," in March, 1866, which, with communications from M. du Bofc, and M. Ogilvy 's report of his vifit to the diftricl:, will mow what is the prefent condition of the few furvivors of the old name there. Chateau de Vouteville, pres Bayeux, Calvados. Je re^oit a l'inftant, Monfieur, la reponfe de M. Herve de Fortefcu, et malheureufement il ne lui refte plus de papiers de famille. II me dit que fon pere avait encore beaucoup de vieux titres qu'il fe rappelle d'avoir vus dans fon enfance, et dont il a fouvent entendu parler ; mais comme ils font tombes dans un etat voifine a la pauvrete, fon frere aine entre les mains duquel etaient tombes ces papiers, n'en a pas apprecie l'importance et les a laiffes perdre completement. II fe rappelle que fon pere lui a dit qu'un Leonore de Fortefcu etait alle en Angleterre, il y a plufieurs fiecles. Maintenant il eft a ma connaiffance que les anciennes recherches font mention de leur famille comme habitant les Communes du Mefnil- Angot, et du Defert, ou il leur refte encore aujourd'hui quelques hectares de terre. Mon pere fe rappelle d'avoir vu au commencement du fiecle un vieux Chevalier de Fortefcu qui eft le dernier de la famille qui ait vecu noblement, les derniers ayant ete forcees d'apprendre des metiers pour vivre. Dans tous les cas leur petiteffe n'empeche pas qu'on ne fache tres bien dans le pays qu'ils font de tres ancienne et bonne Noblefle, et j'ai fouvent entendu parler dans ce fens a mon grand-pere qui etait tres au courant des families du pays. Je regrette done, Monfieur, de ne pouvoir vous tranfmettre rien de plus precis. Si on tenait beaucoup a avoir connaiffance des titres qui peuvent refter en Normandie fur la famille de Fortefcu, on pourrait ecrire a Mons r . du Bofc, Archivifte du Departement de la Manche a St. Lo, e'eft la perfonne qui me parait le plus en etat de donner des renfeignements. Adieu, Monfieur, Recevez l'affurance de ma confederation, C TE . Aug ste . de Bonvouloir. We may affume that the old " Chevalier de Fortefcu " here mentioned is the Paul de Fortefcu of M. de Magny, recorded as prefent at a meeting of the nobility at St. Lo, in 1789. Families of Normandy. 453 Monfieur du Bofc, the keeper of the archives, in anfwer to inquiries made in accordance with the foregoing fuggeftion, very courteoufly replies that the " doflier " of Fortefcu in his office at St. Lo contains only a few papers of intereft, of which he furnifhes abftracts, which will be given hereafter. I fubjoin parts of two letters from him to M. Ogilvy, written, the firft from Montebourg, on the 9th of April, 1866 ; the other from St. Lo, on the 17th of the fame month. " Les Fortefcu d'Angleterre, et les Fortefcu de France ont tres certainement une origine commune, ce n'eft pas une queftion a debattre." " Depuis mon retour a St. Lo, j'ai fait un voyage dans la commune du Defert, lieu ou demeure un membre de la vieille famille de Fortefcu, le plus capable m'avait on dit, de donner des renfeignements. II m'a declare que dans fa branche il n'a ete conferve aucuns titres qui puiflent etre de la moindre utihte. "Cette branche eft ainfi compofee: — " 1°. Jean de Fortefcu, demeurant a l'Anglet, terre patrimoniale, 56 ans ; marie. " 2°. Herve Alexandre de Fortefcu, demeurant a Bonvouloir, 54 ans ; marie (e'eft lui qui m'a renfeigne). " 3 0 . Jacques de Fortefcu, demeurant au Mefnil-Veneron, 5 1 ans ; marie. " 4 0 . Theodore de Fortefcu, demeurant a Graignes ; marie. " lis font fils de Herve Alexandre de Fortefcu decede a l'Anglet il y a une douzaine d'annees. lis ont trois coufins nes au Mefnil-Veneron tout pres de l'Anglet, l'un eft proprie- taire et journalier, deux font domeftiques aux environs de Baveux. lis n'ont pas plus de titres que les quatre premiers. Tous ces gens la ne pourraient etablir leur genealogie qu'au moyen des regiftres de l'etat civil, qui ne remontent pas gencralement au-dela de 1690." In Auguft, 1866, M. Gabriel Ogilvy, having occafion to go to Normandy, was fo good as to vifit the diftricl between St. Lo and Carentan, where the Fortefcus mentioned in M. du Bofc's letter refide. He travelled by railway from Bayeux to the ftation of Airel on the Cherbourg line; thence on foot fome few miles further to Le Defert, Bonvouloir, and l'Anglet, vifiting two of the four brothers above named, viz., Jean (or Jean Francois), the ekleft, and Herve de Fortefcu, the fecond brother. The former is a final] peafant-proprietor, tilling his own thirty-nine vergees of land. He is a municipal councillor of his commune of Le Defert, and fhowed M. Ogilvy the fummons which he had received to an approaching meeting of the Council, thus addrefled : — " Monfieur, Monfieur, Jean-Francois Defortefcu, Cultivateur et Confeiller, a L'Anglet, Commune du Defert." 454 Families of Normandy. Herve appeared to be in rather better circumftances ; he was formerly Garde de Chafle and Garde de Ferme to the Count de Bonvouloir, and bought from his employer the land on which ftood the old Chateau de Bonvouloir, on condition that it mould be pulled down. He lives in a cottage clofe at hand. M. Ogilvy alfo vifited the houfe of a Fortefcu in the village of La Gauterie, between St. Fremont and Le Defert, called " Fortefcu des Marais," or, more commonly, " De Marais " only, defcended from Francois de Fortefcu, Seigneur de Marfleur, in 1736. It would feem that he is a farm labourer. M. Ogilvy finally examined the Mairie of Le Defert, where he found papers enabling him to draw up the following defcent of thefe Fortefcus, by which it will be feen that they are fprung from Guillaume Fortefcu, founder of the branch of St. Lo, in M. de Magny's pedigree, where will be found Jean Fortefcu, fecond fon of the above-named Guillaume, and father of Michel, infcribed as Noble at Caen in 1666. This Michel de Fortefcu ftands firft in M. Ogilvy's pedigree, thus : — I. Michel de Fortefcu, Ecuyer, fieur du lieu et de L'Anglet en 1670, fut pere de — 1. Charles 1 de Fortefcu, Ecuyer, Sieur de L'Anglet, 1684-1701; dont Char- lotte de Fortefcu en 1700, 1701, filleule d' Andre de Fortefcu pretre, Ecuyer, en 170 1. 1. Francois, dont l'article fuit. 3. Damoifelle Marie de Fortefcu en 16 84-1 711. II. Francois de Fortefcu, Ecuyer, Sieur de L'Anglet et de Mefnilbu en 1707 et 17 n, fut pere de — 1. Jean-Francois, dont l'article fuit. 2. Francois de Fortefcu, Sieur de Marfleur en 1736. De lui eft iflue une branche de laboureurs demeurant a la Gauterie pres Saint Fremont. 3. Jofeph-Antoine de Fortefcu vivant en 1774. 4. Paul de Fortefcu vivant en 1774, pere de Luc de Fortefcu du Mefnil- Veneron, pere de trois garcons maintenant partis en condition, c'eft a dire, domeftiques. 5. Madeleine Francoife de Fortefcu nee en 1736, fut mariee avec M. du Mefnil Angot, qui perit fur l'Echafaud au temps de Robefpierre. 6. Catherine Francoife de Fortefcu vivante en 1774. 7. Francoife de Fortefcu vivante en 1774. III. Jean Francois de Fortefcu Ecuyer, Sieur de L'Anglet, epoufa en 1736, Marie Magdeleine Francoife de Lempriere, dont — 1 In the Armorial General, Normandie, Caen, Cabinet de Titres, vol. 388, fol. 93, Imp. Lib., Charles Fortefcu, Ecuyer, fieur de Langlet, is found to have regiftered his arms in 1696-97. Families of Normandy. 455 1. Herve Francois Alexandre, dont 1'article fiat, et 2. Jean Francois naufrage fur Jes cotes de Guinee. IV. Herve Francois Alexandre de Fortefcu, fervit fur mer de n a 15 ans. Mort le 10 Juin, 1854, ayant epoufe Catherine Suzanne Biree, dont les quatre freres deja nommes, vivants 1866. 1 V. Jean Francois de Fortefcu, fils aine, ne le 21 Juin, 1809; marie avec Marie Virginie Herouard, dont 1. Jules Aimable de Fortefcu, age de 18 ans. 2. Jean Yves de Fortefcu, age de 17 ans. 3. Alfonfe Alexandre Ifidore de Fortefcu, age de 13 ans. 4. Marie Jofephine de Fortefcu, age de 7 ans. The papers at Le Defert alfo mention Leonor de Fortefcu, a brother or coufin german of his contemporary Michel Fortefcu ; he is given in M. de Magny's pedigree as Seigneur du Chefne, paroifTe du Mefnil-Angot, 1666; 5 and by Ogilvy, quoting the papers in the mairie, as "Sieur de la Chefnaye dcmeurant au Mefnil-Angot. En 1'annee 1691 Andre de Fortefcu, fils du dit Leonor de Fortefcu Ecuyer, fieur de la Chefnaye s'oppofa a la publi- cation des bans de mariage des Mademoifelle Marie de Fortefcu fa coufme germaine, fille de Michel de Fortefcu Ecuyer, fieur de L' Angler, avec Monfieur Rene Allix, fieur de la vallee de Daye." There are alfo fome of the Fortefcu family ftill exifting at Graignes, Canton of St. Jean de Daye, Arrondiflement of St. Lo, where George de Fortefcu, Ecuyer, left a fon George, born in 1790, who, in the year 18 10, left his native place to ferve in the army, and has not been fince heard of (November, 1867). This information is from M.Courois, Notary of St. Jean de Daye, who fays that he is " Notaire de la famille de Fortefcu," 3 and wi fries for information concerning the miffing perfon, who is fuppofed to have gone to England. Another notice of a Fortefcu in modern times is the following from the " Actes de l'Etat Civil a Bayeux" : — " 1823. Acle de Mariage en date du 28 Juin, 1823, de Fran^oife Veronique de Fortefcu, fille de Jean Paul de Fortefcu Ecuyer, fieur de Bois, et de Marie Regnault de la Commune du Mcfnil Veneron (Manche) avec Gilles Francois Denis." 4 The lift of" Emigres de la Republique Francaife" contains the following: — " Fortefcu (Rene) Diftrict du Rouher de la Liberie, Municipalite du Defert, Departement de la 1 See page 453. 2 See De Magny's Pedigree, ante. 3 See M. Courois' Letter to the Author, in the Appendix. * Communications Manufcrites de M. Olive, Rue Echo a Bayeux, 1864, in Ogilvy 's MS. Account of Norman Fortefcues. 456 Families of Normandy, Manche ; fes biens fitues dans les dits Diftrict, Municipalite, et Departement; conflate emigre et porte fur la lifte par arret du Departement du 6 e Novembre, 1792." 1 In 1769 Meflire Jacques de Fortefcu 2 was Bailli of the " Haute Juftice" at La Haye du Putts. 3 His wife was " Noble Dame Charlotte Neel," who was godmother in 1770 to Charles Alexis Adrian du Heriffien, de Gerville, a learned antiquarian of Normandy, who died at Valognes, July 26, 1853. In July, 1 87 1, M. Ogilvy, having lately returned from Normandy, informed me that at Cherbourg, Sainte Marie du Mont, and Montbourg, in the Cotenten, he found feven or eight men of the name of Fortefcu in the Mobiles. They belonged to the clafs of peafants, but, he added, " they all know that they have ' parens ' in England of a more fortunate clafs." They found the s in pronouncing their name. In the Imperial Library at Paris there are many papers relating to the Norman Fortefcues, throwing light upon fome of the names in the foregoing Pedigree ; feveral of them are mufter rolls and receipts for the pay of efquires, men-at-arms, and foldiers in the laft half of the 14th century; moft of thefe relate to a Jean Fortefcu Ecuyer, who appears in Du Londel's genealogy (No. VII.) as "Jean Fortefcu Chevalier." We firft find him in 1363, when he bought lands from Rogier Avernoy of the parifh of Marchefieux. There are feveral mufters and receipts for pay at various times, from the year 1366 to September 20th, 1388, for himfelf and his company, " ferving and to ferve in the prefent wars in the Coftenten and Normandy in general," which are dated at Carentan, St. Lo, and Bayeux. The mufters are five in number, and the receipts up to his appoint- ment as captain of Pont Douve are nine in all. To fome of thefe his feal is attached, and a few impreflions of that and of other feals have been found fufficiently well preferved to enable me to have drawings made from them, which, being of much intereft, are engraved for this work. 4 Mufter ofjehan Fortefcu, June 2, a.d. 1366. La mouftre de Jehan Fortefcu Ecuyer, et deux autres efcuiers en fa compaignie revue au feige du Honne le fecond jour de Juinz Mccclxvj. Le dit efcuier — cheval liart. Guillem de Baron efcuier — cheval noir. Due de la Maire efcuier — cheval brun — bon. 1 Bibliotheque Hiftorique de la Revolution, partie ii. p. 53. 2 Renault, Revue Monumentale et Hiftorique de l'Arrondiflement de Coutances. 8vo. St. Lo, 1854. 3 Ibid., p. 576. 4 Cabinet de Titres (Imp. Lib.), Doffier " Fortefcu." See the lift of its contents in the Appendix, and the Deed of Sale from Rogier Avernoy. Families of Normandy. 457 Receipt for pay from Jehan Fortefcue June gth, a.d. 1366. Sachent tous que je Jehan Fortefcu efcuier ay eu et recu de Remier le Boutelier clerc du Roy notre Seigneur et fon Vicomte de Beveux receveur general es bailliages de Caen et de Coftentin des aides ordones pour la delivrance du Roi Jehan derrenier trepafle, done Dieu ait lame, et pour le fait de la guerre la fomme de douze frans d'or empreft fur les gaiges de moy et des gens darmes de ma compaignie defervans et a defervir fous le gouverne- ment de Monfeigneur Guillem du Merle fire de Mefly, cappitaine general es diz bailliages. De la quelle fomme de douze francs je me tien pour bien paie. Donne fouz mon feel le ix jour de Juinz lan mil ccclx fix. 1 A like Receipt from the fame, January 29th, a.d. 1379. ' Saichent tous que je Jehan Fortefcu efcuier confefle avoir eu et recue de Jehan le Flamene, treforier des guerres du Roy noftre Seigneur la fomme de fix vins quinze livres Tournois en preft fur les gaiges de moy et de huit autres efcuiers de ma compagnie defervans et a defervir en ces prefentes guerres du roy noftre dit feigneur es partees de Coftentin foubz le gouvernment de Meflire l'amiral de la mer. De la quelle fomme de vj" xv 1. T. deftus dite je me tieng pour content et bien paie. Donne a Carentan foubz mon feel le xxix jour de Janvier Fan mil ccclxxix. The feal, of which a drawing is here given, is attached. Mufter of Jehan Fortefcue, February 1, a.d. i38o.' 1 La revue de Jehan Fortefcue efcuier et quatre autres efcuiers de fa compaignie revue a Carentan le premier jour de Fevrier Fan mil ccciiij". Premier. Michel Brifehance. Le dit Fortefcu efcuier. Jehan le Breton. Jehan de Vandelle. Robert Bloville. 1 Cabinet de Titres (Imp. Lib.), Doffier " Fortefcu." King John II. of France was taken prifoner by the Englifh under the Black Prince at Poitiers in 1356, and died in 1364. 2 Ibid. The feal is from the Clairembault Collection. 3 Clairembault, 48. Do. 3622. February 1, 1380. 3 n 45 8 Families of Normandy. The fame. May i8th } a.d. 1380. 1 La revue de Jehan Fortefcu efcuier et huit autres efcuiers de fa compaignie revue a Carentan le xviij jour de Maie l'an mil ccclxxx. Premier. Jehan de Meantys. Le dit Jehan Fortefcu. Jehan de Saint Germain. ( Aymery le Nerroys. Gorget Blondel. Michiel Brifehanche. Robert Teflon. Mahier de Corbie. Jehan de Saint Hillaire. The fame, July r, a.d. 1380. 2 La revue de Jehan Fortefcu efcuier, et fix autres efcuiers de fa compaignie auquelx le derrain eftoit foubz Roger Suhart, reveue a Carentan le premier jour de Juillet l'an mil ccciiij x \ Premier. Jehan de Mentis. Le dit Jehan Fortefcu. Georget Blondel. Michiel Brifchante. Jehan Le Breton. Aymery le Nourriez. Guillem Dameril. Receipt from Jehan Fortefcu for pay, July 18, a.d. 13 80. 3 Saichent tous que je Jehan Fortefcu, efcuier, confefle avoir eu et recu de Jehan le Flamene treforier des guerres du roye noftre feigneur, la fomme de quatre vins dix livres Tournois en preft fur les gaiges de moy et de cinq autres efcuiers de ma compaignie deflervis et a deflervir en ces prefentes guerres du roy noftre dit feigneur en pays de Conftantin foubz le gouvernement de Monfeigneur l'Amiral de France. De la quelle fomme de iiij x x. 1. T. deftus diz je me tien pour comptent et bien paie. Donne a Carentan foubz mon feel le xviij jour de Juillet l'an mil ccc et quatre vins. There is another receipt from the fame Jehan Fortefcu, 4 to the fame, dated and fealed at Carentan, Auguft 23, 1380, for 105 livres Tournois for himfelf and fix other efquires, word for word like the former, excepting that the words " en parties de la Bafle Normandie et Coftentin" are fubftituted for "en pays de Conftantin." And another from the fame to the fame, 5 dated and fealed at the fame place, October 1 Cabinet de Titres, Doffier " Fortefcu." May 18, 1380. 2 Clairemb. 48. Titres Scellez, vol. xlviii. 3621. July 1, 1380. 3 Ibid., Do. Original, with feal, July 18, 1380. 4 Ibid., Do. 3625. 5 Ibid., Do. 3623. Fa?nilies of Normandy. 459 25, 1380, for 135 livres Tournois for himfelf and eight other efquires of his company, in the fame words. Another from the fame to the fame, 1 dated and fealed at Carentan, December 28, 1380, for 120 livres Tournois for himfelf and feven other efquires of his company, in the fame words. Mujler of Jchan Fortefcu, Nov. 1, a.d. 1385. La revue de Jehan Fortefcu, efcuier, et vij autres efcuiers de fa compaignie reveue a Caren- tan le premier jour de Novembre Tan mil ccciiij xx . et cinq. Et premier, Le dit Jehan Fortefcu. Guillem de Nerville. 2 Receipt for pay from Jehan Fortefcu, June 20, a.d. 138 8. 5 Saichent tuit que je Jehan Fortefcu efcuier confefTe avoir eu et recu de Jehan le Fla mene treforier des guerres du roy notre feigneur la fomme de trante livres Tournois en preft fur les gaiges de moy et vij autres ecuiers de ma compaignie deflervis et a defTervir en ces prefentes guerres en pays de Normandie. De la quelle fomme de xxx 1. T. deflus dicle je me tiens pour content et bien paie. Donne a Saint Lo, foubz mon feel le xx jour de Juinz l'an mil ccciiij x \ et huit. The feal, of which a drawing is here given, is attached. Two receipts from the fame Jehan Fortefcu to the fame Treafurer Jehan le Flamene, come next in order; they are dated, one, September 5, 1388, at Carentan ; + the other, Sep- tember 20, 1388, at Bayeux, 5 each for thirty livres Tournois for himfelf and one other efquire, and each with a feal attached. He receives in the following month an appointment as Captain of the Fort of Pont Douve, 0 looked upon as the key of the Cotentin, near Carentan, as mown by the order from the Royal Treafurers upon the Vicomte de Couftance to pay him the falary attached to the port, provided that he lhall perform the duties well and duly, and in his own perfon. 1 Clairemb. 48 Do. 3623. '-' Ibid., Do. 3622. Only the above two names given. Nov. 1, 1385. 3 Ibid., Do 3623. 4 Ibid., Do. 3625. 6 The fame. 6 This name is more correctly fpelt " Pont d'Ouve." See " Hiftoire du Chateau et des Sires de Saint Sauveur le Vicomte," by L. Delisle, Valognes, 1867, p. 259, where much information is given on the hiftory of the Cotentin. 460 Families of Normandy. Order for payment to Jehan Fortefcu, as Captain of the Fort of Pont Douve, Otlober 7, a.d. 1398. 1 De par les treforiers du roy notre feigneur a Paris. Viconte de Couftances, ou Ton lieu- tenant, accompliffez les lettres du dit feigneur au vidimus des quelles ces prefentes font attachez foubz l'un de nos fignes. En payant dorefnavant a Jehan Fortefcu, Capitaine ou garde de la forterefle ou baftide du Pont Dove les gaiges ay cellui office appartenant aux termes et en la maniere accouftumez ainfi et par la maniere que le dit feigneur le mande. Efcript a Paris le vij e jour d'Octobre l'an mil ccciiij xx xviij. pourvu que le dit office il exerce bien et duement, et en perfonne, efcript comme defTus. Ferrier. It will be obferved that John Fortefcu ftyles himfelf in the following receipts " Seigneur de Saint Evremont," elfewhere called St. Evremont fur L'Ozan, a parifh on the fmall river Ozan, near Mefnil-Angot, and places before his name the " de" which in thofe days gene- rally implied a fief of the name ; of the exiftence of which there are indications alfo elfe- where : for example, in an atteftation, 2 by a Jehan Fortefcu, ftyled " de Fortefcu," he is called "Seigneur du dit lieu ; " he bears the fame arms with the Captain of Pont Douve, viz., "argent, three bends azure," and may be the fame perfon. Receipt from Jehan Fortefcu, Lord of St. Evremont, for his pay, June 23, a.d. 1399. 3 Sachent tous que je Jehan de Fortefcu, efcuier, feigneur de Saint Evremont, et Capitaine ordene depar le Roy notre feigneur, de la fortrefle et baftide du Pont Douve, congnoys et confeffe avoir eu et recu de honnourable homme Jehan le Chien Viconte de Couftances la fomme de quarante et une livres, fept foulz, quatre deniers Tournois, a moy deubz a caufe de mes gaiges du dit office de Capitaine depuis le penultieme jour d'Oclobre mil ccciiij*". dix huit derraine pafTe, jufque au jour de pafques enfuivant, de la quelle fomme de xlj/. v\js. m]d. Poitevois je me tien pour bien paie, et en quitte le Roy notre feigneur, le dit Viconte et tous autres. Temoins mon feel mis en cefte prefente quittance le xxiij jour de Juin, l'an mil ccciiij xx . dix neuf. J. Fortescu. 1 Cabinet de Titres, Doffier "Fortefcu," October 7, 1398. 2 Abftracts of Deeds on Vellum, in Imp. Lib., Paris; and Chamillard, in " Le Blazon Francais," in Mr. Lentaigne's letter. 3 Cabinet de Titres, Doffier "Fortefcu," June 23, 1399. Families of Normandy. A like receipt for 50 livres Tournois, from the fame to the fame, 1 dated November 28, a.d. 1400, for the term of St. Michael laft paft, is thus certified : — "En temoing de ce jay fcelle cefte quittance de mon propre feel le xxviij jour de Novembre l'an mil quatre cens. " Fortescu." The death of this John Fortefcu took place about the end of the year 1402, a receipt for his pay being figned by his fon on the fecond of February, 1403, thus: — Receipt from Guilkm Fortejcu for pay due to his late father as Captain of Pont Douve, February 11, 1 403 . 2 Je Guillem Fortefcu efcuier fils et heritier de feu Jehan Fortefcu nagaires Cappitaine du Pont Douve, confefTe avoir eu et recu de honnourable homme Robert de Lettre Viconte de Couftantin la fomme de cinquante livres Tournois qui deuz eftoient a mon dit feu pere a caufe de fes gaiges de Cappitaine du terme Saint Michel dernier pafle. De la quelle fomme de 1. 1. T. je me tien pour bien paye et comptent et en quitte le roy notre feigneur le dit Viconte et toux autres a qui quittance en appartient. En tefmoing de ce jay fcelle cefte quittance de mon feel le ij jour de Fevrier, Ian mil quatre cens et trois. The feal here given is attached to this document. This Guillaume Fortefcu is the fame who, in 1415, was killed at the great battle of Agincourt. The next receipt mows that he fucceeded to his father's office at Pont Douve, which indeed appears to have become hereditary in the family, for, as other papers will mow, Guillaume Fortefcu's next brother, Sir John, Lord of St. Evremont, was afterwards captain of the fame fortrefs. Receipt from Guillem Fortefcu for pay due to his late father, June 1 1, a.d. 14O4. 3 Sachent tous que je Guillem Fortefcu efcuier filz de feu Jehan Fortefcu confefTe avoir eu et recu de honnorable homme et fage Robert de Lettre Viconte de Coutances la fomme 1 Cabinet de Titres, Doflier "Fortefcu," Nov. 28, 1400. 3 Ibid., June 1 1, 1404. Ibid., February 2, 1403. 462 Families of Normandy. de vint et chincq livres, neuf foulz, fix deniers ob Poitevine qui deubz eftoient a mon dit pere et a moy pour noz gaiges de fervice par mon dit pere et par moy depuis le jour Saint Michel lan mil cccc et troiz cellui jour inclus, jufques au darrain jour de Janvier enfuivant exclu. De la quelle fomme de xxv/. ixj. vld. ob Poitevine je me tien pour content et en quitte le Roy notre feigneur, le Viconte, et tous autres a qui quittance en peut et doit appartenir. En temoing de ce jay fcelle cefte quittance de mon propre feel le xj jour de Juing l'an mil iiij c et quatre. The feal attached to the two foregoing receipts is thus defcribed by De Belleval : — Seal : A fhield with three bends ; fupporters two Lions. Creft : A Lion's head within a pair of wings. 1 We next find him, three months before the great battle where he met his death, pafling mufter at Valognes with his twelve fquires. Mujler of Guillem Fortefcu, July 25, a. d. 14 15. 2 La Mouftre de Guillem Fortefcu, efcuier, et de douze autres efcuiers de fa compaignie, reveue a Valognes le xxv jour de Juillet l'an mil cccc et quinze. C'eft aflavoir. Le dit efcuier. Jehan Fortefcu. Pre le Feure. Ricart Fortefcu. Robin le Feure. Pierre Fortefcu. Jehan Peinel. Guillem Auber. Jehan de Chilians. Pierre Lore. Frolin de Tilly. Michelet Lenfant. Raoul des Mons. His name is in Monftrelet's Chronicle in the lift of "the names of the Princes and other Lords from divers countries who perifhed at this unfortunate battle on the fide of the French." Under the head of " les grands feigneurs des Marches de Picardie, comme d'autres pays," among a very large number we read " Guillaume Fortefcu." De Belleval fays : — " Les Chroniquers ne pouvaient enregiftrer huit milles noms (de gentilfhommes qui perirent a Azincourt) ils ont du faire, ils ont fait un choix et parmi les combattants et les victimes ils n'ont nomme que les perfonages les plus en evidence par leur grandes fonclions, ou leur haute naiflance." 3 1 De Belleval, Azincourt, p. 193. 2 Clairembault, 48, Do. 3624. 3 De Belleval, Azincourt, Preface, p. 8. / Families of Normandy. 463 Pierre Fortefcu, one of the three of the name ferving with Guillaume at Azincourt, con- tinued to ad againft the Englifti. He is found in 141 8 at the head of eighteen other Efquires, 1 in the army raifed by the Dauphin for the defence of Touraine, and is reviewed at the fiege of Tours, on the 1 2th of December in that year ; and the following receipt mows him to have been employed againft the fame enemy in other provinces of the Weft of France, in the following fpring : — Receipt for pay from Pierre Fortefcu, May 31, a.d. 1419.* Sachent tous que je Pierre Fortefcu efcuier confefte avoir eu et recu de Hemon Ragnier treforier des guerres du Roy notre feigneur la fomme de cuatre vins dix livres Tournois en preft et paiement fur les gaiges de moy efcuier, et de unze autres efcuiers de ma com- paignie deflervis et a deflervir au fervice du Roy notre dit Seigneur et de Monfeigneur le regent le roy, alencontre les Anglois qui de prefent font en Duchie de Normandie, Contrez du Maine et du Perche et en plufieurs autres parties voifines,et partout aillieurs ou il plaira a mon dit feigneur le regent ordonner, en la compaignie de Monfeigneur de Narbonne, et foubz le gouvernement de mon dit Seigneur le Regent. De la quelle fomme de iiij"x. 1. T. je me tieng pour content et bien paie, et en quitte le dit treforier et tous autres. Donne en tefmoing de ce foubz mon feel le dernier jour de May Tan mil cccc et dix neuf. The feal here given is attached to this receipt. At the date of the foregoing, Henry V. had again entered France, having landed in Nor- mandy in Auguft, 1 41 7, with a very ftrong army of 30,000 men, and reducing Cherbourg, with all the other ftrong places of Lower Normandy, finally obtained pofleffion of the entire Duchy by the fall of Rouen in January, 141 9. We do not hear more of this Pierre Fortefcu, but can difcover the effecT: of the Englifh conqueft upon his coufin Jean Fortefcu, fecond fon of the former Captain of Pont Douve, and next brother to Guillaume killed at Azincourt, whom he fucceeded in the Lordfhip of St. Evremont, as well as in the command at Pont Douve. 1 Dom. Maurice, Hiftoire de Bretagne, Paris, 1744, $ vols, folio, vol. ii. col. 986. (Communicated by M. Ogilvy.) 1 Claircmb. 48, Id. 3625, May 31, 1419. 464 Families of Normandy. This fortrefs, like all others in the province, fell into the hands of the Englifh. 1 On the 27th of March, 1418, Jean Fortefcu, the governor, furrendered it to two knights, Sir John Robeflart and Sir William Beauchamp, fent for the purpofe by the Duke of Gloucefter, who took Carentan at the fame time. The conditions are preferved in a work by Brequigny, and were as follows : 2 — " II eft ftipule que les Chevaliers, et Efcuyers emporteront leurs armures, vetures, et emme- neront leurs chevaux, mais laifTeront les canons, poudres, arcs, arbaletes, fleches, viretores, baudreux, et generalement les armes qui fervaient de fauvegarde a la fortereffe ; " Que tous les Gentilftiommes et autres de la dite forterefle qui voudront demeurer attendre et devenir hommes lieges et vrais, obeiflans et fubgiez de notre dit Souverain Seigneur le Roy de France et d'Angleterre, f'y accordera et accorde a tous ceux de la condition defludite, tous leurs biens, meubles, heritages, terres, et poflefTions, tant dedans le dit chaftel comme dehors, hormis les terres qui auront ete donnes devant cefte prefente compofition : Que les dames et damoifelles qui prefentement font au Chaftel du Pont Douve, mon dit Seigneur de Gloucefter de fa haute Seigneurie et gentilefle leur a accorde que au jour de la dite rendue elles auront et emporteront avefques eulx tous leurs biens propres." - Jean de Fortefcu figna cette capitulation en la ville de Saint Lo le .I7 me Mars 1417-18. 3 In accordance with the above conditions, Jean Fortefcu was maintained by Henry V. in the pofleflion of his property within the Bailliage of Caen and Coutances by a decree of the 19th of September, 1419, 4 having already, on the 24th of June in that year, been named by the fame King, " pour commander avec d'autres gentilftiommes la Noblefle du Bailliage de Coftentin." In 1420 there is the following atteftation : — tc Atteftation de Maflion le Fevre chevalier garde du feel des obligations de la Viconte de Carentan, que Jehan Fortefcue efcuier a fait l'hommage que tenue lui eftoit faire a caufe et par raifon de fes heritages, rentes, et pofTeflions. Dat. 28 de Maie 1420." 5 The ac~t of homage bears date at Caen, April 13th, 1420, in the eighth year of King Henry V. 1 Carte, Catalogue of Gafcon, Norman, and French Rolls in the Tower of London. Le Chanteur, Hiftoire de Carentan. 2 Le Chanteur, Hiftoire de Carentan, quoting Brequigny (fee Ogilvy, p. 40). 3 See M. Olive de Bayeux, MS. communication. 4 M. Olive to M. Ogilvy, 1864. 5 Abftracls of Deeds on Vellum, Imp. Lib. Paris; see alfo, in the appendix, " Mandement relatif a l'hom- mage que Jehan Fortescu avait fait au Roi d'Angleterre." Families of Normandy. 465 Jean Fortefcue's adhefion to the caufe of Henry V. was complete. A Norman feigneur at that time fcarcely counted himfelf as a Frenchman; and when a defcendant of his old fovereigns the Dukes of Normandy appeared on the foil, he probably did little violence to any feeling of patriotifm or of loyalty when he transferred his allegiance from the French King to the new conqueror. In 1424 he holds an honourable port as that is to fay, to have loft their rank as nobles, and the commiffioners condemned them to a fine of fix livres each. Their privileges were reftored to them in the year 1645. 1 This is the form of the judgment : — " Vu les titres prefentez par Antoine de Fortefcu, efcuier, feigneur de demeurant a Saint Andre du Bouchain tant pour lui que pour Jacques de Fortefcu, fon frere, enfans de Pierre, fils Pierre, fils Jacques, fils Triftan de Fortefcu, Efcuyer, Seigneur de Mefnil-Angot, veu par nous les actes prefentez par le dit Anthoine de Fortefcu comme commis et fermier du grefFe du Bailliage de Carentan, avons ordonne que le dit Jacques et Anthoine feront impofez a la taille en la dite paroifle de Saint Andre du Bouchain, a la fomme de dix livres chacun du principal ; et pour avoir deroges, les avons condamnez a la fomme de 6 livres chacun d'amende. " lis ont efte fermiers et greffiers du grefFe a Carentan." 2 By the following order of reftoration we gather that another of the family had loft his rights by holding the fame office : — " 1625, arret du Confeil Prive du Roi declarant que Jean de Fortefcu ancien Noble, a deroge en exercant le greffe Royal de Carentan, confirmantle jugement des Commiflaries Tan 1625, et re-habilitant le deroge." 3 In the " Recherches de Nobles de la Generalite de Caen," by Chamillard, about 1655, the Ogilvy, Nobiliaire de Normandie, Introduction, p. xx. 2 D'Allegre, p. 70, Art. 164. 3 Ogilvy MS. Collections, Fortefcu. Families of Normandy. Fortefcues are thus mentioned. 1 I cannot identify all of them with thofe which have been met elfewhere : — Election de Vire. Ancienne NoblefTe. Sergeanterie de Jean le Blanc. Jacques de Fortefcu. Paroifle, le Pleflis-Grimault. Election et Sergeanterie de Carentan. Ancienne NoblefTe. Leonor de Fortefcu. ParoifTe, Mefnil-Angot. Jean de Fortefcu. Idem. Jacques de Fortefcu. Idem. Election de Carentan, Sergeanterie du Hommet. Michel de Fortefcu. ParoifTe, Le Defert. Election de Valongnes, Sergeanterie de Valongnes. Tanneguy de Fortefcu. Paroifle, Alleaume. Election de Bayeux, Sergeanterie d'Ifigny. Ancienne NoblefTe. Marc-Antoine de Fortefcu, de Maiftry. The Fortefcues of Saint Marie du Mont formed another branch, nearly allied to the feigneurs of St. Evremont. St. Marie du Mont is a parifh fituated on the fhores of the eftuary through which the waters of the Douve and Vire flow into the fea north of Carentan. Our principal knowledge of them is drawn from a document which was lately bought for the Britifh Mufeum, being a " chartrier " or rental of the eftate of " Richart Fortefcu, efcuyer, Seigneur du Buiflbn, feant en la paroifle de Sainte Marie du Mont." It was drawn up not later than the year 1463, probably feveral years earlier, and contains copies of con- veyances of land by his anceftors, both by purchafe and by leafe, as early as the year 1365. PYom this, and from other notices in corroboration, I have deduced fome particulars of what would appear to have been one of the moft prominent of the numerous families of the name cluttered together in the Cotentin, in the furthefl: part of Lower Normandy, more clofely, and in greater numbers than were their Englifh coufins in the moft fouthern pro- montory of South Devon. 1 Rcgiftre dc Chamillard pour les Rechcrchcs des Nobles de la Generality de Caen ( Prels-Mark. Rrit. MlM. 4581. Plut. L. I. D.), folios 40, 59, 61, 74. 472 Families of Normandy \ Pierre Fortefcu 1 married, not later than 1350, Guillemette aux Efpaules, daughter of Guillaume aux Efpaules, Chevalier, of the parifh of Sainte Marie du Mont. His fon Jean gives the following receipt in 1370 : — " Jehan Fortefcu efcuier du fort de Neauhou fi comme il difoit confefle devoir a Richart Segoniz demourant a Roan la fomme de quarante franz d'or a luy preftez, tous fes pour et en nom de Mons. Guillaume aux Efpaules, Chevalier, Capitaine du dit fort, et fon oncle." 2 In a.d. 1375, in the reign of Charles V. of France, Guillaume Fortefcu, together with Guillaume aux Efpaules, Captain of Nehou, and Jean, Sire de Gouhenans, was a prifoner with the Englifh at Saint Sauveur le Vicomte. They were all three ranfomed by the French King as a condition of the evacuation by the Englifh of that fortrefs. Fortefcu's ranfom was five hundred francs. 3 The name of Neauhou occurs in the Chartrier, it is fituated north of St. Sauveur.* This John was feized of the following fiefs, 5 namely : — Franquetot in the parifhes of Quetreville and Coignies, Mons in the parifhes of St. Marie du Mont and Brucheville, held direct, from" the King by the fixth part of a " fieu de Haubert." Thefe two fiefs he inhe- rited from his forefathers, while he alfo held the fief of Hubertville in the parifhes of Hubertville and St. Germain en Tournebu, in right of his wife, Guillemette du Hommet, fifter of Jean du Hommet, Chevalier, Seigneur de la Varanquerie ; and he purchafed, in the year 1365, the fief and VavafTorie of BuifTon in Saint Marie du Mont, with a watermill in the next parifh of Brucheville. Jean Fortefcu du BuifTon was living in 1403, as by this certificate appears: — " Je Jehan Fortefcu efcuier Seigneur du fieu de Pictot affiz a Franquetot es paroifTes de Quetreville et de Coignies, tefmoigne et certiffie que Jehan Anquetil fut mon prevoft en dit fieu en l'an mil ccciij xx et fix (1366). Tefmoing mon feel cy mis le x jour de Septembre l'an mil cccc et trois." 6 The name of Anquetil occurs frequently in the Chartrier of Richart Fortefcu ; the full title of which document is as follows : — " Ceft le Chartrier ou font les rentes de Richart Fortefcu efcuier Seignour du BuifTon, et les tenans du dit fieu en la maniere qui enfuit fait et ordonne." 1 Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu, folio 16. 2 Archives de la voute du Palais de Juftice a Rouen Reg. 3, folio 76. 3 Delifle's Hiftoire de Saint-Sauveur, pp. 233 and 262. Nehou and Neauhou are the fame place. 4 Chartrier, folio 22. 6 Ibid., folio 55, et feq. 6 Cabinet de Titres, Imp. Lib. Paris, Doffier " Fortefcu." Families of Normandy. 473 Richard Fortefcu held his fiefs, fome directly from the King, fome from other lords. The tenants are numerous, and the holdings, which are given in acres, vergies, and percques, are generally fmall. This Richard fucceeded his father, and muft have lived to a good old age, as he was alive in 1464. The Chartrier will be found printed in full at the end of this volume, and the annexed fac-fimiles of part of its contents will give the reader an idea of the appearance of the manufcript. The defendants of Richard Fortefcu ftill held the fief of Buiflbn in 1540. In that year Guillaume Fortefcu Sieur du Buiflbn, is on record as a benefactor to the parifh church of Sainte Marie du Mont. I have taken the foregoing from the " Memoires de la Societe des Antiquaires de Normandie," 1 which alfo has a notice on that parifh as follows : — "About the year 1380, next to the Aux Efpaules, the three principal families of the parifh of St. Marie du Mont were the Beaugendres, the Fortefcues, and the Ofberts. Thefe three noble houses, together with the lords of the place (i. e. the Aux Efpaules), joined in building the tower of the parifh church. " The old people of the parifh relate that the Fortefcues (who lived in the quarter called Poupeville) contributed alfo towards the erection of the ftecple. Their family vault is in the South tranfept, next to that of the Beaugendres. On the ftone flab which covers it are thefe words, 'Cy gift Noble Demoifelle Catherine Fortefcu,' &c. Her wooden coffin efcaped defecration in the Revolution, and may ftill be feen in its original place in the vault." The Fortefcu arms, cut in ftone, were on one of the angles of the church tower until that time of destruction. 2 The arms of Richart Fortefcu of St. Marie du Mont are given differently by two authorities, one in the Imperial Library, of 1464, with a drawing, aftlgns to him and to Triftain Fortefcu of Mefnil-Angot, a fmgle bend azure on a field argent, thus approaching the Englifh coat. The other in the Cotton MSS., without date, gives him the more ufual three bends azure, on a field argent. 5 In the firft half of the fifteenth century Mariette de Fortefcu of Sainte Marie du Mont married Charles de Beaugendre of the fame parifh.' 1 Publifhed yearly at Caen fince 1824. The fame paper gives alfo the ufual tradition of the Fortefcues and William the Conqueror. 5 St. Allais, Nobiliairc Univcrfel. 3 Abftracls from Deeds on Vellum, Imp. Lib., and Cotton MS. Tiberius, Armorial de Normandie. * Ogilvy, Nobiliairc de Normandie, 120. 3 r 474 Families of Normandy. In 1469 we find in the Archives du Chapitre d' Angers, " Fortefcu (Jean) Seigneur de la Guichardiere avou a tenir en foy et hommage fimple de noble homme Jacques le Veneur ecuyer Seigneur de la Boiffoniere et de Mirmonde, a caufe de fa feigneurie de Mirmonde, un fief affis au dit Mermonde, avec tout ce qui en dependoit par acte paffe le 1 3 e Septembre, 1469, delivree vers la fin par vetufte. Arch, du Chap. d'Angers, feneft. 11. Pruns aveux tome i. fol. 9." 1 There are feveral other notices of Fortefcues in Normandy relating to perfons whom we have no means of aligning to their proper place or branch in the family ; for example, in 1419-20, there is a Norman Roll of 7th Henry V., dated from the Camp at Gifors, October 4, 141 9 : — " De dote conceffa Hugona?, or Hugnetae, Fortefcu viduae, quae fuit uxor Gullielmi le Taneur defuncti," &c, &c. 2 In 1420-21 there is another: — "De officio venandi lupos concefTo Johanni Fortefcu." 3 Richard Fortefcu, with Thomas Duthill, is commiffioned in 1428, on the 2nd of December, by the Lords Suffolk, Talbot, and Scales, to pafs in review the mounted archers and men-at-arms of William Glafdal, bailiff of Alencon, ferving at the fiege of Orleans. This, however, may be Sir Richard of Ermington and Ponfbourne. 4 In 1429, dated Rouen, March 8, is a warrant to pay Meffire Guillaume Fortefcue Chevalier, two months' pay for himfelf, three other men-at-arms, and twelve mounted archers under the command of the Earl of Suffolk. 5 The arms of the Fortefcues of Normandy, while they differ from thofe of England, do not vary in a greater degree than is confiftent with their common origin. M. de Magny thus defcribes them : " La maifon de Fortefcu en Normandie porte de toute anciennete un Champ d'Argent, a trois bandes d'azur : Timbre, Cafque de Chevalier a l'antique, furmonte d'une Couronne fleuronnee de Trephles ; Crie d'armes, et de nom comme Chevalier, Porte-guidon, ou Banneret, 'Fortefcu'; L'efcu echanchre a dextre." The fhield is in general argent with three bends of azure, and this is the form of the earlieft Fortefcue coat, Norman or Englifh, known to the writer, namely, one attached to a deed of a.d. 1363, already mentioned, relating to Jean Fortefcu and Rogier Avernoy. Underneath the fhield is written, " Fortefcu efcuyer, Seigneur du dit lieu, Chefne, du Tailles, Beauregard, Launay, Comte de Caen, Election de Bayeux." 6 The Chevalier Guillaume Fortefcu, killed at Azincourt, bore the fame arms. 1 Abftracts of Deeds on Vellum, Imp. Lib. 2 Carte, Norman, Gafcon, and French Rolls in Tower of London ; Norman Rolls, vol. i. p. 316. 3 Ibid., p. 357. 4 Catalogue of Additional Charters in Brit. Mus., vols. i. and ii. 6 Ibid., iii. 3. 6 See p. 456, and the Appendix to this chapter ; alfo Abftract from Deeds on Vellum, Imp. Lib. ; Cotton MS. ; Tiberius; Armorial de Normandie ; Nobiliaire de Normandie, a.d. 1688, perfectionne par Dubuiflbn. Fortescu Seigneur de Corainville , etc Election de Bayeux. ( Nobiliaire de Normandie . ) Tristan Forte sou du Mesnil - Angot , A D. ]4-C> + ( Deeds on Vellum Imp Lib. ) Fa?nilies of Normandy. 475 Sometimes we find the colours of the fhield and bends interchanged by the fame branch of the family ; e.g., when Jacques Jofeph de Fortefcu, Sieur de Tailly, 1 bears on a field azure three bends argent — Tailly being, no doubt, another form of Tailles, or Taillis. A wider departure from their original fhield appears in the fame family in 1666 — in the Nobiliaire of M. de Saint Allais, when " Fortefcve Ecuyer, fieur du dit lieu, des Chefnes, du Taillis, de Beauregard, de Launay," &c, maintained Noble in that year, regifters his arms as " Three bends gules on a field argent." Another variation is that noticed already in the cafe of Richard Fortefcu of Sainte Marie du Mont, and Triftain Fortefcu of Mefnil-Angot, who, in fome inftances, took a fingle broad bend of azure on an argent field in place of the three narrow bends. The ftep from fome of thefe coats to the Englifh coat is not greater than from one of them to the other. The central bend is widened, and indented or engrailed, fo far lofing part of the ancient characteriftic of fimplicity ; the lateral bends are contracted into bendlets or cotifes, and thefe laft are coloured in gold. It was by differences of this kind that brothers, or the defendants of brothers, were in the habit of diftinguifhing themfelves from their relatives. 2 It is worthy of note that, although the coats of arms borne by the French Fortcfcues are all of a more ancient type than that ufually borne in England, there are traces of a fimpler form having once exifted in this country. The arms of Fortefcue of Prefton or Prutefton, now extinct, were a bend, not engrailed, cotifed ; and a Fortefcue fhield, of a houfe not fpecified, occurs in a MS. collection of the feventeenth century, as w a bend between two bendlets azure;" and in Burke's ''General Armoury," we find: " Fortefcue, azure, a bend cotifed argent" — though without reference to the branch which thus bore the fhield. It is probable that the communications between perfons of the name on both fides of the Channel were not unfrequent — firft, during the time when the Kings of England were alfo Dukes of Normandy, extending to King John's reign in 1 204, a period of about one hundred and forty years from the Conqueft ; and afterwards in the French wars of the middle of the thirteenth century, and in the conqueft of Normandy by Edward III. (1346), approaching to the date of the earlieft Fortefcu coat of arms that we have met with (1363) ; and French and Englifh Fortcfcues may eafily have met in the Cru fades ; for we know that fome of the name from both countries joined in thofe expeditions. The remarkable feal which has been figured at page 172 of this family hiftory, and which can hardly mean anything but an intermarriage between a French Fortefcu and a daughter of the name in England, likewife points to intercourfe between the two widely-feparated lines. 1 Armorial General dc Normandie, Caen ; Cabinet de Titrcs, Imp. Lib. 388, f. 93 ; and Nobiliaire Univerfel de la France, Saint Allais, I'aris, 1815, vol. vi. p. 99. 2 Boutell's Heraldry, 1864, P- 1 1S- / 47 6 Families of Normandy. Poffibly a daughter of Sir John Fortefcue, Governor of Meaux in 1422, or of Richard Fortefcue of Ermington, who patted into Normandy in 1443, may have married Richart Fortefcu of Sainte Marie du Mont, or another Richart, 1 mentioned in a certificate given at the Cour d'Aflizes at Evreux in 1453, as having left Normandy. We find one inftance where a Fortefcu took an efcutcheon quite different from the reft of the family: — " Bureau de Saint Lo. Charles de Fortefcu efcuier Sieur de Langle. D'or, a une epee de fable en pal et fur trois ecuffons d'argent brochant fur le tout." 2 M. de Magny ftates that, "in certain mural paintings of the fifteenth century — (he does not fay where they are to be feen) — the Fortefcue fhield is fhown with a notch in the dexter chief." This was intended to allow the lance when in its reft to pafs through. 3 The creft was not always the fame. Monfieur de Magny gives it as " a knight's helmet crowned and wreathed with trefoil;" but the Norman feals which I have feen have for creft a maftiff's, or it may be a lion's head, 4 between two wings. In fome fragments of feals in the Imperial Library, traces are vifible of other crefts, differing from both the former. The woodcuts of a.d. 1403 and a.d. 1429 here given are examples, the firft of the more usual creft, and the other of an imperfect creft differing from it; both are from the Clairem- bault Collection in Paris. FORTESCU, A.D. I4O3. FoRTESCU, A.D. I429. In England the creft, from the firft which has been found, early in the fixteenth century, to the prefent time, is uniformly an heraldic tiger paffant, the only change in detail which has occurred being the addition, fome time in the laft century, of a small fhield in the tiger's paw, introduced by Earl Fortefcue and the Earl of Clermont and others, and ftill ufed by their defcendants. The motto belongs to the clafs technically ftyled " canting," as being a play upon the furname. We do not know when or by what member of the family it was firft adopted, 1 See the Certificate in Appendix. 2 Imp. Lib. Paris, Armorial General de Normandie, Caen ; Cabinet de Titres, vol. 388, fol. 93. 3 Boutell's Heraldry. 4 De Belleval, Azincourt, arms of Guillaume Fortefcu, p. 193. Families of Normandy. 477 though probably it was taken not later than the beginning of the fixteenth century. Weft- cote, in his " View of Devonfhire," writing, at the clofe of that century, upon the Wimp- ftone Fortefcues, fays that " Forte fcutum falus ducum " is the " pofy " of that name, 1 mowing that it was then in eftablifhed and general ufe. It muft be remembered that, in former times, the motto — or, as the French call it, the u cri d'armes" — was not conftantly the fame from father to fon, but each chofe what pleafed him. The heralds took little if any notice of the motto. It is not once mentioned in all the Vifitations of the family which I have examined, although they contain very many coats of arms. Sir Adrian occasionally ufed the words " Loyall Penfe ;" and his fon Thomas places " A virtute orta occidunt rarius " over his arms. The French families, according to M. de Magny, took the words of their name, Fort Ecu, as their motto. Appendix to Chap. XVI. A. Courois Notaire a Saint-Jean de Daye y Chef-lieu de Canton (Manche). Au tres honorable Lord de Fortefcu. Comme notaire de la famille de Fortefcu j'ai l'honneur d'expofer au tres honorable Lord de Fortefcu, ce qui fuit. Georges de Fortefcu, ne a Graignes, canton de St. Jean de Daye lc 4 Juillet, 1790, fils de Georges Francois de Fortefcu ecuyer, eft parti de Graignes a l'agc de 20 ans pour le fervice militaire. C'etait au moment des guerres du premier empire. Depuis cettc epoque fa famille tres inquictt n'avait pas recu de fes nouvelles, lorfque l'annee derniere une perfonne etrangere eft venue prendre des renfeignements fur la famille de Fortefcu, et a revele le deccs a Londres d'un de Fortefcu que l'on fuppofait etre ne en Normandie. Cette revelation a neceflairemcnt fait fuppofer que ce de Fortefcu pourrait bicn etre Georges. Ce qui ajoute au raifonnement de cette fuppofition, e'eft que comme je l'ai deja dit, Georges de Fortefcu faifait fon fervice lors du paflage de l'Empereur Napoleon premier en Angleterre. Si Georges de Fortefcu n'eft pas mort, fa famille ferait exceflivement heurcufe de connaitrc fon cxiftencc et de pourvoir fe rappeller a fes fouvenirs. Si, au contraire, il eft decede, il eft important pour elle de favoir a quoi s'en tcnir fur fa fucccflion. J'ai penfe, tres honorable Lord, que par vos hautes et importantes fonclions, vous pourriez rendre 1 Weftcote's Devonfhire ; Exeter, 1 845, p. 394. 47 8 Families of Normandy. un eminent fervice a la Famille de Fortefcu en lui faifant decouvrir a Londres Georges de Fortefcu, ou en lui faifant connaitre fa fucceffion dans le cas de deces. Je m'adrefle a vous avec d'autant plus de confiance, que la Famille de Fortefcu eft Tune des plus nobles et des plus anciennes de la Normandie ; je dirai meme que vos ancetres doivent etre nes en cette province qu'ils ont du quitter lors de la conquete de l'Angleterre par Guillaume le Conquerant (ver s Tan 1060). J'ajouterai que l'an dernier auffi, l'un de vos regifleurs eft venu dans notre pays pour rechercher fi la Famille de Fortefcu etait bien la votre, il dit que fi cette Famille avait befoin de vos fervices vous vous emprefleriez de les leur rendre. Auffi, tres honorable Lord, je compte fur votre extreme bienveillance et votre haute influence pour bien vouloir faire en forte que la Famille de Fortefcu fache a quoi s'en tenir, foit fur l'exiftence foit fur le deces de Georges de Fortefcu. J'ai l'honneur d'etre, avec le plus profond refpecl:, Tres honorable Lord, votre tres humble ferviteur, Courois, Notaire a St. Jean de Daye, arrondiflement de St. Lo, Departement de la Manche, Normandie, France. 1 B. Es Affizes d'Evreux tenues par nous Pierres Duval, lieutenant general de noble homme Robert de Floques efcuier confillier du roy notre feigneur et fon bailli du dit lieu d'Evreux le Samedi tiers jour de Novembre continues du Lundi xxix jour d'O&obre precedent premier jour des dits affifes l'an mil cccc et cinquante trois, fe comparu Girault de Monteniral, fergeant du roy, notre feigneur en la fergeufe de a Bonneville, difant que pieca 2 Jehan Gendon, viconte du dit lieu d'Evreux lui avoit baillit a cueillir 1. livres T. venir tuis au prouffit du roy, notre dit feigneur ceft aflavoir trente folz Tournois en quoy Richart Fortefcu, efcuier, avoit efte mis en amende vers Jehan du Bufc femblablement efcuier, et vingt folz Tournois en quoy Thomas Chaunceller avoit pareillement efte mis en amende vers Meffire Thomas Guillotin preftre, et Guillem du Mefnil, icelles amendes par nous tauxees pour les termes de Touflaints iiij c li. et aflencion cccclij. Des quelles amendes le dit fergent navoit peu aucun chofe avoir ne recouvrer combien que de ce il euft fait tout devoir et diligence parce que le dit Fortefcu et Chanceller eftoient abfens et hors du pais de Normandie et navoient aucuns biens meubles ou heritaiges fur quoy le roy, notre dit feigneur peuft eftre paie. Et ne autmoins le dit vicomte voullu contraindre le dit fergeant icelles fommes paier requeroit fur ce provifion de juftice et que de ce que dit eft information feuft fait a tel fin que de raifon pour que non euffions fait venir devant nous Jehan de Vienne, Laurence Coulle, Colin Note, Nicolas le Charier, Jehan Langlois, et plufieurs autres congnoiflants les dits Fortefcu et Chanceller eftoient abfens et hors du pais et navoient aucuns biens meubles ne heritaiges au dit pays de Normandie ne ailleurs dont ilz euflent congnoiflance, et mefures 1 There is no date to this letter. It was addrelFed to the refidence of the Right Honourable Chichefter Fortefcue in the firft week of November, 1 867 ; but was evidently intended for Lord Clermont, for whom M. Ogilvy, referred to as " regifTeur," made his journey to Normandy. 2 Sic in MS. Families of Normandy. 479 que de recouvrer le partement des dits amendes le dit de Monteniral avoit fait toute diligence. Veu lequelle rapport, par ladvis et confeil des abfiftes de la court, donne fu en mandement au dit Viconte que des fommes deffus dites il tiengne quiet et paifable le dit du Monteniral. Donne que deflus. c. A Lift of Deeds contained in the Imperial Library, Paris, which relate to the Forte/cues of Normandy, communicated by Monfeeur Leopold Delisle, Oclober, 1879. Depouillement des 3 1 pieces qui compofent le doffier Fortefcu du Cabinet de titres. 1. No. du doffier 27,126. 2. 1363. Vente faite a Jehan Fortefcu efcuier par Rogier Auvernoy de Marchefieux. 3. 1366. Montre de Jehan Fortefcu. 4. 1366. 9 Juin. Quittance de Jehan Fortefcu. 5. 1379. 29 Jan. Quittance de Jehan Fortefcu. 6. 1400. 28 Nov. Quittance de Jehan P'ortefcu, capitaine du Pont d'Ouvc 7. 1379. 18 Mar. Revue de Jehan Fortefcu. 8. 1388. 18 Mar. Quittance de Jehan Fortefcu. 9. 1398. 7 Ocl. Ordre des treforiers du roi de payer les gages de Jehan Fortefcu. 10. 1399. 23 Jan. Quittance de Jehan P'ortefcu. 11. 1403. 10 Sept. Quittance de Jehan f ortefcu. 12. 1403. 2 Fev. Quittance de Guill. Fortefcu, fils de feu Jehan Fortefcu. 13. 1404. 6 Juin. Quittance de Guillaume Fortefcu. 14. 1420. 30 Avril. Mandement des gens des comptes relatif a l'hommaige que Jehan Fortefcu avait fait au roi [d' Angleterre]. 15. 1424. 4 Juill. Acle redige au nom de Jehan Fortefcu, efcuier, garde du feel des obligations de la Viconte de Cherbourg. 16. 1429. 3 Avril. Quittance de Jehan Fortefcu capitaine de 4 lances, &c. 17. 1429. 1 Sept. Acle redige au nom de Jehan Fortefcu chevalier garde du feel des obligations de la Viconte de Valognes. 18. 1430. 4 Fev. Acle redige au nom du meme. 19. 1432. 30 Avril. Acle redige au nom du meme. 20. 1432. 2 Nov. Acle redige au nom du meme. 21. 1436. 18 Aout. Acle redige au nom du meme. 22. 1437. 6 Juill. Acle redige au nom de Jehan Fortefcu chevalier. 23. 1443. 10 Juill. Acle redige au nom de Jehan Fortefcu chevalier. 24. 1446. 23 Juin. Acle redige au nom de Jehan Fortefcu chevalier. 25. 1446. 30 Juin. Acle redige au nom de Jehan Fortefcu chevalier. 26. 1447. 30 Sept. Acle redige au nom de Jehan Fortefcu chevalier. 27. 1448. 2 Janv. Acle redige au nom de Jehan Fortefcu chevalier. 1 The original is in the Cabinet dc Titrcs, Paris, Doflier " Fortefcu." 480 Families of Normandy. 28. T448. 3 Fev. A&e redige au nom de Jehan Fortefcu chevalier. 29. 1453. 3 Nov. A&e mentionnant une amende encourue par Richart Fortefcu, efcuier, du baillage d'Evreux. 30. 1509. 31 OSc. A £te mentionnant Nicolas Fortefcu, efcuier, Seigneur de la Vieulle Court de la parroife du Mefnil Angot. 31. 1512. 4 Nov. Acle mentionnant le meme. Volume 48 des Titres Scelles de Claire?nbault. P. 3620. 1380. 1 Juillet. Revue de Jehan Fortefcue a Carentan. P. 3621. 1380. 18 Juill. Quittance du meme. P. 3622. 1380. 1 Fev. Revue du meme. » I 3^5* 1 Nov. Revue du meme. P. 3623. 1380. 23 Aout. Quittance du meme. ,, 1380. 25 06t. Quittance du meme. „ 1380. 28 Dec. Quittance du meme. ,, 1388. 20 Juin. Quittance du meme. P. 3624. 1 41 5. 22 Juill. Montre de Guillaume Fortefcu a Valognes. P. 3625. 1388. 20 Sept. Quittance de Jehan Fortefcu. 1388. 5 Sept. Quittance de Jehan Fortefcu. „ -1419- 3 1 Mai. Quittance de Pierre Fortefcu. Volume 76 des Titres Scelles de Clair embault. P. 5978. 1420. 24 Aout. Montre dans laquelle figure Pierre de Fortefcu efcuier. Volume 102 des Titres Scelles de Clairembault. P. 7926. 1415. 2 Sept. Revue dans laquelle figure Jehan Fortefcu, efcuier. D. Deed of fale by Rogier Avernoy of Marchefieux to "Jehan Fortefcu, efcuier \ A.D. 1363. (Bibliotbeque Nationale, Paris, Dojfier '■'■Fortefcu," No. 2.) A toutz ceulx qui ces lectres verront ou arront Eftienne de Senechars (?) garde du feel des obliga- cions de la viconte de Sain£t-Sauveur-Lendelin falut. Sachent toutz que par devant Jehan Audeney clerc, tabellion jure et eftabli quant ad ce fut prefent Rogier Avernoy de la paroifle de Marchefieux qui recognut de fa bonne volentezquil avoit vendu quittie et deleffie a fin de heritaige de Jehan Fortefcu, efcuier un cappon danuel rente au terme de Noel a prendre et a avoir par la main dudit Rogier et de fes hoirs et ofFre pour ce juftice fur toutz fes biens meubles en quelconque lieu q'eulx foient par le fer- geant Royal ou fans fergeant par voie d'excecucion (mots ronges) dit Rogier en ait fait courvee et affiete aillours en lieu fouffiefant fanz nul dechie laquelle courvee ledit efcuier fera (mots ronges). Et fut fai&e cefte vente pour un flourin d'or {aucbat?) quatre deniers Ledit Rogier fuivant ce que a efle dit Families of Normandy. 481 par ledit tabellion. Pourquoy il promift que luy fes hoirs font et feront tenus audit efcuier et a fes hoirs, ladite rente garantir, delivrer et deffendre vers touz et contre touz ofter de touz empefchemens ou aillours a la value efchange fe meftier en eftoit, fournir et faire paier ou paier de foy fanz nul dechieet fans amenifer. Et quant a ladi£te rente paier et rendre ceftuy an audit ecuier et a fes hoirs par voie d'excecution jufques a tant que Courvee et afliete en foit faicle comme dit eft. LedicT: Rogier obli- geant foy et fes hoirs et toutz lour biens meubles et heritaige prefentz et a venir ou que y foient a vendre et a defpendre par la Juftice et pour deftaute de ce entrefigne. Et pour payer couz, mifcs et defpens qui en feroient faiz. En tefmoing de ce, nous, a la Rellacion dudit tabellion avons mis a ces Jeftres le feel deflus di£t. Sauf aultruy droit. Ce fut fait lan de grace mil ccc foixante et troys, le lundi de la fefte de la Sain£t Martin deftey. Phelippot Audry. E. Certificate of the hommage done by Jean Fortefcu, efcuier, to King Henry the Fifth of England on the iyh of April in the 8th year of his reign, 1420. A tous ceulx qui ces lectres verront ou arrant. Maffion Lefevre chevalier, garde des obligacions de la viconte de Carenten Salut. Savoir faifons que Guillaume Mollet Clerc tabellion jure et commis foubz Pierres Darot, tabellion de Carenten, nous a tefmoingnie et relate foubz fon figne manucl avoir veu, leu mot apres mot et diligentement regarde un mandement de Meflieurs les gens des comptcs du Roy noftre Sire, en la duchie de Normendie, figne en marge de trois de leurs fignes fain et entier en figne et en efcripture contenant la fourme qui enfuit. Les gens des comptei du Roy noftre Sire, ez la duchie de Normendie au baillis de Coftentin et aux vicontes d'icellui bailliage et a chafcun des autre 1 - jufticiers et officiers dudit Seigneur ou a leurs lieuxtenans falut. II nous eft apparu par un brief du rov noftre Sire, donne le xiii'' jour d'Avril lan viii' de fon regnc, lequcl nous avons retenu en la dicte chambre que Jean Fortefcu, efcuier lui a fait l'hgmmage que tenu lui eftoit faire a caufe et par raifon de fes heritaiges rentes et pofleflions et pour en bail lier fon adveu et denombrement par efcript, lui avons donne et donnons par ces prefentes, terme, refpit et fousfrance jufques a la Saint Michiel prou- chain venant. Sy vous mandons eta chafcun de vous fi comme a lui appartendra que ledit ecuier vous faites, fouftres et leffies jouir paifiblement de fes ditz heritaiges, rentes et pofieffioni fans fur ce lui donner aucun deftourbier ou empefchement pour caufe dudit hommage non fait et denombrement non baillie pendant ledit temps pourveu toutes voies quil ny ait autre caufe raifonnable dempefchement pour quoy faire ne le doies. Laquelle fe elle en eftoit nous referves 1 affin. Donne a Caen le derrain jour davni lan mil quatre censet vingt. Ainfi figne H. le Veu. En tefmoing de laquelle chofe, nous garde deflus diz, avons fcelle ces prefentes leclres de vidimus du feel deflus dit a la relacion dudit tabellion fauf autre droit. Ce fut fait le xxviii'' jour de May lan de grace mil quatre cens et vingt. Mollet. Thus in the original. APPENDIX. See Page 2. HE Fortefcue family, although of ancient (landing, and with many branches from its original ftem, does not appear to be at prefent very numeroufly represented. The name is not of very common occurrence, nor very widely fpread. Even in Devonfhire, the earlieft feat of the race in England, on fearching the "Gazetteer" of Devon for 1879, we find only eight houfeholders fo denomi- nated. Of thefe, five are county magiftrates, two are beneficed clergymen, and one is a folicitor. The lifts of all other profeffions and trades do not contain the name ; nor does the very long lift of more than 2,800 farmers. If we turn to the "London Poft Office Directory" — probably the largeft collection of furnames contained in any fingle volume, and admitted to be a fair tcft of the relative frequency of occurrence of moft furnames in the kingdom at large — its iftue for 1878 will fhow nine entries in the fo-called " Court " feclion, while the " Commercial " feclion gives feven occurrences of the name. The readers of this volume may have remarked feveral variations and corruptions in the mode of fpelling the name. I have noted in print all thofe in the lift below, fome of which denote difference alfo in the mode of pronouncing it. The original form of Fort-efcu, common to the Norman and EngUfl) families to the end of the fixteenth century, has been changed by fhortening, lengthening, or diftorting it into — Fortefcue Forkefkewe Fortefque Forlkew Fortefkuc Forefcu Fortefkewe Fofcue Fortefquiew Fofcu Fortefkew Fofkew Fortefcugh Fafkie Fortefcut I have met with all thefe variations in printed books ; the laft in Nichols's " Diary," printed by the Bannatyne Club in 1836, the perfon intended being Sir Faithful Fortefcue, then with Charles II. in Scotland. 4 8 4 Appendix . See page 3 . Affifa de morte anteceflbris, referred to at page 3, Anno i. John. Devon, a.d. i 199. Affifa de morte anteceflbris inter Johannem De Reini petentem et Willielmum filium Baldwini tenentem de una carucata terre cum pertinenciis in Brikeftone ponetur in adventum jufticie pro defedu re<5ti. Quia Willielmus Baftardus et Robertus de Serehill, Alexander de Heuendli Robertus Euftac' Ricardus Fortefcu non venerunt vel fe efle et ideo attachientur, ideo dies datus eft rectis qui venerunt. et nota quod Willielmus filius Balden nil dixit quare affifa remaneat. 1 See page 5 . William Fortefcue, of Wimfton, as already faid, married Elizabeth, daughter of John Bechamp of Ryme (by Margaret, daughter of John Whalifburgh), fon of John, fon of Sir Humphrey, fon of Lord Robert Bechamp. John Bechamp married Alice, daughter of Sir Roger Novant de Cleft, Knight, by Ifabella, daughter of Sir William Bonvill, Knight, fon of Roger, fon of Guido Novant, fon of Roger, fon of Baldwyn de Novant, brother of Dominus Henricus de Novant, both the fons of Roger de Novant. The foregoing is taken from Sir William Pole's " Defcription of Devonfhire," in the Britifh Mufeum. Add. MS. 28,649, p. 455. He fometimes fpells the laft word in the above extradl "Nonant;" but in Hutchins's " Dorfet," v. 4, p. 394, and in Dugdale's Baronagium it ftands as " Novant." See page 10. Inscriptions in Woodleigh Church. (Copied from " Stemmata Fortefcuana.") On a marble ftone upon the floor near the pulpit : — " Here lyeth the body of Francis Fortefcu of Wood Efquire who dyed the 6 and was buried the 7 day of April afio Dom. 1649. " Here lyes his duft but his beft tombs fled hence For marble cannot laft like innocence. And now his urne grows pure as was his mind For good men only fall to be refined. Stones are but weak prefervers, his fall preft More lafting toombes in the furvivor's breaft." Rotuli Curiae Regis, vol. ii. p. 201, Palgrave. Appendix. 485 "Sacrum in Memoriam Petri Fortefcu filii Petri Fortefcu de Prutefton et Wood Baronetti et Amix uxoris ejus qui inauditis et deploratis fingultibus vitam fuam floridam pro beata Dei vifione liberi mutavit. qui obiit 15 die Oclob. et 16 ejufdem menfis fepultus erat anno Dom. 1676. " Behold and mourn for in this church is led A Twin — the heir of Fortefcues' is dead. His Life run fhort with groans and with alarms, He courted Death with fighs and doleful charms. The World he fcorned his Lordfhip and his Land — He quits this Life to purchafe Heaven in hand. His foul's above his Parents' joy to fing, Cceleftial prayfes to his God and King. Mors mihi lucrum." See page 20. Sir Nicholas Fortefcu, Knight of Malta, travelled in Italy in the year 1638. The Reverend J. Orlebar Payne has obligingly communicated the following extract from the Strangers' Book of the Englifh College at Rome, which is of fome intereft, as mowing that he and the poet Milton were guefts together at dinner at that College on the 30th of October in that year, the Poet alfo being on his travels : — "Ex libro Peregrinorum qui in Collegio Anglorum Romx hofpitio recepti funt — " 1638. " Die 30 0£tobris pranfi funt in Collegio Noftro Illuftriflimus D. N. Carv pater Baronis de Faukelande, Dodtor Holdingus Lancaltrienfis, D. N. de Fortefcuto, et Dominus Miltonus cum famulo, nobiles Angli, et excepti funt laute." See page 27. The following inferiptions in Eaft Allington Church were copied in the church by the Author, on the 17th of June, 1879, too late for infertion in their proper place: — " Here lyeth the body of S r . Edmund Fortefcue Knight and Baronett, who dyed the 30"' of December Anno Domini 1666, aetatis fuae 24." "Here lie the bodies of S 1 Sandys Fortefcue, who dyed the 27 of October, Anno Domini 1683, aetatis fuae 23. And of Elizabeth his Lady who dyed January 19, 1682." 4 86 Appendix. Oil a flab in the floor of the nave, round a figure of a man — " Here lyeth the body of Edmund Fortefcue, Efq r . fometime High Sheriff of the County of Devon. He departed this life the 2i 5t of July 1624." On the eaft wall of fouth aifle, below two braffes thirty-two inches long, of a man and woman fide by fide — " Here lyeth buried the bodies of John Fortefcue, Efquier, and Owner his wife. Which John deceafed the XXV th day of December a". 1595, being the age of LXX. years, and the faid Owner deceafed the daie of anno domini being the age of years." On the floor within the communion rails — " Here lyeth the body of Elizabeth, widow of John Fortefcue of Fallapit Efquire who was buried March 23. Anno Dom. 1663." — (Copied from " Stemm. Fort." p. 55.) The following is part of an infcription on a large mural tablet on the fouth wall of Eaft Allington Church, to Edmund Fortefcue, Efquire, of Fallapit, and Mary his wife, and fix of their children : — " Mary, eldeft daughter, was married to William Fortefcue Efquire now Mafter of the Rolls, by whom fhe had iffue Mary their only child, foon after whofe birth fhe dyed on the firft day of Auguft 1 7 I'D, in the 21 st year of her age." The church and village of Eaft Allington, four miles north-eaft of Kingfbridge, fiand high above the houfe and park of Fallapit, which occupy the lower flopes of a wooded valley below. The houfe is a modern one, well reprefented in the woodcut, furrounded by grounds, where rhododen- drons were in bloom at the time of my vifit. The village is fmall, and fome cottages are ruinous. Over the door of a very humble public-houfe hangs the fign of "The Fortefcue Arms," with emblazoned fhield. The Fortefcue eftate in the parifh was fold fome years ago, and is the property of William Cubitt, Efquire. The church, ftanding high up on the hill-fide, above the village, and of confiderable fize, is in the Perpendicular ftyle. See page 28. In St. Saviour's Church, at Dartmouth, where the members of the Corporation attend, the arms of feveral of the former mayors are emblazoned on the panels of the galleries, among which is the Fortefcue Coat. Probably it was a member of the Fallapit family who filled that office. See page 50. Norris, the fuppofed birthplace of Chancellor Fortefcue, retains no traces of antiquity. The fite of the old houfe is occupied by a fmall and very modern farm-houfe on the eftate of Mr. Bowden, Appendix. 487 of Butterford, in the parifh of North Huifh, about five miles north-eaft of Modbury. It ftands deep down in a valley, near the banks of the Avon, and is approached from the church and village by a long lane, accounted fteep and narrow even in Devonfhire. Sir John Fortefcue, a younger fon of the Wimpftone Houfe, married the heirefs of Norris, whofe pofleffions were feparated by a few miles only either from the anceftral feat, or from Shepham (pronounced Shipham), where Sir John had previoufly fettled. This laft is now a farm-houfe, between Modbury and Ermington, to the north-weft of the former ; while Wimpftone lies near the Kingfbridge road, fcarcely a mile to the fouth-eaft of Modbury. This laft town was the chief place of the diftricl where the Fortefcues firft eftablifhed them- felves, and whence feveral offsets from the main ftem became rooted. It is poflible in a day's drive to vifit the principal points thus made interefting to their defcendants — namely, Wimpftone, Shepham, Norris, Wood, and Fallapit ; and an excurfion not longer to the weft of Modbury would include two other ancient Fortefcue feats, Spridleftone, near Brixton, and Prefton on the Newton-Ferrers road — the one on the weft, the other on the eaft of the Yealm river and eftuary. Wimpftone Houfe, a modern manfion, is the refidence of Mr. Prettyjohn Pitts. The author, when calling there on the 1 8th of June 1879, was told by the lady of the houfe that the old Fortefcue dwelling is faid to have ftood lower down the hill, on the ground now occupied by the farm-buildings. Nothing, however, remains to identify the fpot, in accordance with Pole's ftatement 250 years ago, that M Wympfton is utterly wafted." The name is fpelt in various ways, as " Whimpfton " in the Ordnance Map, " Wymfton " in the Gazetteer of Devon ; while both thefe are adopted by Lyfons. u VV'im- ftone," a common form in the days of its Fortefcue owners, has been ufed in the chapter of this volume devoted to its hiftory. In early times we find alfo the forms " Wymondefton " and " Wymondfham." See page 79. The circumftance that Sir John Fortefcue wrote this treatife while in exile at Barrois with Cjueen Margaret and Prince Edward limits the date of its compofition to the period between 1464 and 1470. Although it was not printed for at leafl: feventy years later, and muft have been frequently copied in manufcript, only two copies are known now to exift— one in the Britifh Mufeum, the other in the Cambridge Univerfity Library. Edward Whitechurche firft printed it in London, in i6mo. The volume is without date, but cannot be earlier than 1537, 28th of Henry VIII., when Whitechurche began to print. The title is as follows : — "Prenobilis Militis cognomento Forefcu, qui temporibus Henrici Scxti floruit, de politica adminif- tratione et legibus civilibus florentiflimi Regni Anglia; Commentarius. "Excufum Londini typis Edwarde Whitechurche et veniunt in edibus Henrici Smyth Bibliopole, cum privilegio ad imprimendum folum." On the reverfe of the title-page is this addrefs to the reader : — 4 88 Appendix. " Pio Ledori. Iftius non minus pii quam eruditi opufculi exemplar nactus, quum antiquitatem venerandum, una cum eruditione ac pietate conjunxerit : non potui optime lector, aut patriae tarn ingratus, aut antiquitatis tarn inofficiofus cultor effe, ut te illius le£tione diutius fraudarem. Continet enim in fe (ut cetera taceam) politicarum et civilium noftre Anglie legum quibus preclara et floren- tifiima hec refpublica fub illuftriffimo et nunquam fatis laudato principe noftro Henrico octavo, ejufque progenitoribus regibus Anglie ha&enus feliciffime fuerit ere£ta, inftituta, et gubernata, doctiflimum encomion. Unde eafdem noftras leges non folum Romanorum Caefarum fed et omnium aliarum nationum conftitutiones multis parafangis prudentia, juftitia, et equitate precellere facile prefpicias. Erne ergo, lege, et fruere, ac labores noftros boni confule. « Vale." The firft Englifh tranflation was made by Robert Mulcafter, who printed it with the Latin text in Henry VIII. 's reign, in i6mo, without date or printer's name, giving alfo the above addrefs to the reader from Whitechurche. Another edition of Mulcafter's work appeared with the date of 1567, and with the printer's name, thus : — "Imprinted at London in Flete ftrete within Temple Barre, at the figne of the hand and ftarre by Rychard Tottill 1567." A comparifon of thefe two editions fhows not only that the fame types were ufed in both, but that they were both printed from the fame " form," or fetting-up. Numerous mifplacements of fingle letters and figures occur, and fome omiflions; and it has been found that from the title to the end of the treatife they are in every cafe common to both, the tables of contents, however, differing in each. From this circumftance it will probably be confidered certain that Tottell printed both editions, and with no long interval between them. If this be fo, the firft appearance in print of Mulcafter's tranfla- tion, which could hardly have been before 1553, the 7th of Edward VI., in which year Tottell had a fpecial licence to print, 1 may be referred to a date much nearer to 1567. The undated edition is not noticed by Watts or Lowndes ; nor does the Britifti Mufeum poflefs a copy of it. Watts enumerates, in his " Bibliotheca Britannica," editions of "De Laudibus," in i6mo, in 151 6,- 1 567, 1573, I 575> 1578, 1598, and 1599, all with Mulcafter's tranflation; and in 1616, 1660, and 1672, editions in i2mo of the fame text and tranflation, with an addrefs to the reader and notes by John Selden, dated thus: "Farewell from the Inner temple, Sept. 24 1616" — the firft without, the other with his name, figned below the date. To thefe three editions are added " The Two Sums of Sir Ralph de Hengham." Of editionsof "De Laudibus," in i2mo, with Mulcafter's tranflation, I have before me copies of the following: — Firft edition, no date, affumed, for the reafons given above, to have been printed by Richard Tottell, not long before 1567; editions in 1567 and 1573, P rmte< l by Richard Tottell; in 1599, printed by Thomas White and Bonham Norton, London ; in 1616, for the Company of Stationers, 1 Ames's Typographical Antiquities, vol. iv. p. 422. 2 The date 1516 is certainly erroneous — neither Whitechurche nor Tottell printed for many years later, and they only were the early printers of the work. Appendix. 4S9 London ; in 1660, " By permiflion of the Company of Stationers, for Abel Roper at the Sun, againft St. Dunftan's Church in Fleet Street;" in 1672, by John Streater, Eliz. Flefher, and H. Twyford, aflignees of Richard and Edward Atkyns, Efquires. On fome of the later of the above editions I find the following remarks in Nichols's " Hiftorical Libraries : " — "Mulcafter's edition being out of print, the Company of Stationers gave leave to one of their body to reprint it ; but he publifhed it in a very carelefs and flovenly manner : the literal faults, efpecially in the Latin text, are very numerous, and fome of them fuch as moft wretchedly pervert the author's fenfe and meaning." We now come to the more modern appearances of the treatife. In 1737, Mr. Francis Gregor, of Trewarthennick, near Truro, publifhed it with a new tranflation in fmall folio, with preface and notes, retaining alfo thofe by Selden ; and in 1741 a fecond edition was publifhed. Both thefe are without the editor's name. In 1775 an edition came out in 8vo, with the name of "Francis Gregor, Efquire " on the title- page, being a literal reprint of the two former, without any new matter. Thefe three editions include Hengham's two tracts. In 1825 Mr. Amos, a barrifter of Lincoln's Inn, republifhed at Cambridge Gregor's tranflation, with notes of his own. The next edition of" De Laudibus Legum Anglix " is that included in Lord Clermont's complete edition of Sir John Fortefcue's works, 1869, 4to, the Latin text being that of the MS. in the Cam- bridge Univerfity library, and the tranflation is Gregor's. In 1874 an edition in 8vo was publifhed at Cincinnati, in the United States of America, by Robert Clarke and Co. The Latin and Englifh texts are the fame as thofe in the laft-named edition ; and the fketch of the author's life is that prefixed by Lord Clermont to his edition, with fome curtailments. See page 132. Hugh Fortefcue, Efq., of Penwarne, was returned as Member of Parliament for Tregoney, January 12, 1688-9. The lateft mention of the Fortefcues of Penwarne which has come under the notice of the author is on a mural tablet of white marble, referred to in the text, on the fouth wall of the choir of Exeter Cathedral, with the following infcription copied on the fpot, June 16, 1879 : — "Matilda, Widow of the late Shuldham Peard, Efq., Vice Admiral of the White, eldeil and only furviving daughter of William Fortefcue, Efquire, of Penwarne, County of Cornwall, died May 26, 1847, a g e< * 62 years." 3 R 490 Appendix. See page 196. " Our Will and Pleafure is that you caufe our trufty and wellbeloved Sir James Bridgeman K nt . to be forthwith fworne one of the Gentlemen of our Privy Chamber in Ordinary, and to be admitted to enjoy all Rights, Priviledges, and Preheminences belonging to that place. For which this fhallbeyour warrant as foon as our family is fettled. "Given. Whitehall, May the 30 th , 1660." Here follows a lift of twenty-nine names of perfons appointed to the fame office of Gentleman of the Privy Chamber ; among whom that of" Sir Faithfull Fortefcue " appears. See the Egerton MSS. (Nichols's Papers) in the Britifh Mufeum. See page 314. CAMERA STELLATA, DOMINUS GRAY. [Arthur.] The Lord Grey, of Wilton, being of the Order of the Garter, was brought from the Fleete where he and five of. his men had been inprifoned in clofe Prifon ten weekes and more for a rare and notable affault, riot & Battery by them committed primo die Decemb. laft between Temple Bar and Sommerfet Hcufe, where the Queenes Ma ty . and the Court then was upon John Fortefcue, Mafter of the Wardrop, and Reader of the Greeke Tongue to the Queene, he comeing in open ftreete on Horfeback with foot- cloth from the Wardrope towards the Court about 9 of the Clock before noone, and there the Lord Grey came out of a crofs bow makers fhopp, where he and his fervants had tarried an hower, and with a cudgel] or Truncheon of Crab-tree, gave him the Baftinado, and felled him to the ground, and being on the ground was fore beaten and hurt about his head, and certain of his fervants alfo, fo that the bloud ran over his face and eares, and fo went ftraight all bloudy to the Court, and was prefented in that ftate to the Queene. But the Lord Grey by his anfwer to the Bill denied all fuch circum- ftances as did aggravate the offence, viz. lyeing in waite, confpiracies and premeditate malice on pur- pofe to the Act, but confeffed the bare facl to be done upon heat and for fundry former injuryes done to him and his by Fortefcue before, And yet he made an humble fubmiffion to her Ma ty ., with requeft unto her of her clemency and Grace, and to the Lords of the Council, efpeciallyto them of the Order, to be fuitors and meanes for him to her Ma tys . Highneffe and the Crowne, etc. And having been examined upon Interrogatories had anfwered to fome but to divers that were not impertinent to the matter and fuggeftions comprifed in the Bill, but were farr fett circumftances to aggravate the fault, he refuted to anfwer and yet to fome of them by the perfwafion of the Court he then anfwered upon his fidelity, but he was not put to his oath then neither was he fworne upon to anfwer to the Interrogatories (quod mirum fuit mihi). Whereupon the Queftion was whether a Lord fhould be fworne in fuch a cafe, the Queene only being Party, to which I anfwered, in my opinion he fhould be, putting a diffe- rence in the cafe of Tryall by Peeres, or in the Chancery called by Subpoena at a fubjecls fuite, where there by cuftome fome have anfwered, without oath, and this cafe of Riot for the Queene, Sed omnes magnates qui interfuerunt contradixerunt et Catlyn et Munfon prefentes nichil affirmabant. Et fic ad hoc Appendix. Jul jud'tce lis ejh But this notwithftanding the Court, upon his fimple and bare confeffion of the riot, and at the requeft of the Queenes Learned Counfell, without replication or further proofe for any aggravation of the Crime, proceeded to the Order and Decree, and did aflefle upon him £300, and Ten poundes upon every fervant that had anfwered and to pay it, where great favour and mitigation was ufed in refpecf. of his good fervice done to the Oueene and Realme, and his faid Imprifonment and mean eftate and behaviour to maintaine his countenance, and he and they Remitted to the Fleete,etc , where he remained untill the 11"' day of May, next following, on which day he was releafed. The foregoing is taken from Dr. Williams's Library, from " Letters of Eminent Perfons," 3 vols, folio. The tranfa£tion which led to this aflault is narrated at page 314 of this volume. It appears, by a comparifon of the foregoing ftatement with Sir John Fortefcue's Complaint to the Council at page 324, that the outrage was committed during the night of November 30th and December ift, 1573, in the 16th of Elizabeth. The aflailant was Arthur Grey, 14th Lord Grey de Wilton. He was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland during the Earl of Defmond's rebellion in 1580, and was one of the Commiflioners who condemned Mary Queen of Scots at Fotheringay. He died in 1593. See page 429. Anthony Fortefcue, the 11 examinant " in the following papers, was the eldell fon of Sir Anthonv Fortefcue, by Katherine, daughter of Sir Geoffrey Pole or Poole, ot Lordington, fix miles north- weft of Chichefter, in Suflex, and brother of Cardinal Reginald Pole. The 11 Aunt Poole," therefore, mentioned in the paper, was Lady Pole, wife of his great-uncle Sir Geoffrey Pole, who was then living at Rouen, probably as an exile from England, for he was returned in 1576 among thofe magiftrates of Suflex who were fufpecled of favouring Popery and the Ouecn of Scots. 1 The perfon Braye, with whom Fortefcue was fufpected to have dealings, is mentioned in Strvpe's "Annals of the Reformation " as u William Bray, a common conveyer of priefts and rccufants, and of naughty books over the feas, and was taken carrying the Earl of Arundel over the feas." 2 This Earl was Philip Howard, eldeft fon of the Duke of Norfolk, and known to be a zealous Roman Catholic, who, feeling his liberty infecure in England, endeavoured to pafs over to France, but was arretted when on the point of embarking from the Suflex coaft, and committed to the Tower. 1 George Fortefcue, defcribed as " fometime fervant to the Earl of Southampton that Ialt died, has been already mentioned as Sir Anthony's third fon, and the entertainer at his country feat of King James I., in 1604. In thofe times the defignation of fervant did not necefl'arily imply a menial attendant ; young men of the higheft families often being retained by the great nobles to form their 1 Strype, Annals, vol. ii. pt. 2, p. 22. Oxford, 1824. 2 Strype, Annals, vol. iii. pt. 2, p. 600. Oxford, 1824. Camden's Annals of Queen Elizabeth, in Kt unit's Uiftory of England, vol. ii. p. 503. 492 Appendix. fuites, and to increafe their confequence. In the prefent inftance George Fortefcue's Plantagenet blood did not prevent him from receiving an annuity from the fucceflbr of the Earl of Southampton, who was the fon of Wriothefley, Henry VIII.'s chancellor. The exacacon of Anthony Fortescue gent, taken the xx™. daye of Aprill 1585 before Richard Lewkenor Esquier one of her ma ties Justices of pease in the Countye of Sussex. 1. 2. To the firfte and fecond Interrogatories he faith that he hath knowne the faid Braye by the fpace of halfe a yere or thereaboutes, and the firft acquaintance he hadd w ,h him was at his Aunte Pooles houfe, wifFe to his uncle Jefferey Poole, fhee then dwelling at Lurtingtone where this exaiat nowe dwelleth. 3. 4. To the third and fourth he faieth he hath hadd fufpicion that the faide Braye was a preefte or Semynarie or futche lyke as well becaufe he the faid Braye ufed to reforte to the faide houfe covertly, as alfo for that he hadd of late chaunged his name, but he knoweth him nott to be a preefte Jefuytt or Semynarie. 5. To the v th . he fayeth the faide Braye was at this exaiates houfe aboute Shrovetyde lafte, and hath hard that he was there againe aboute the weeke before Eafter. 6. To the Vj th he fayethe the faide Braye being at his fayde houfe the weeke before Eafter aboute the thurfdaye in the fame weeke as he remembreth the fayde Braye looking ill tolde him this exaiat that he hadde beene longe fick of an ague and therefore defired that he moght have a lyttle fleftie drefled for him, and fo he hadd whereof he dydd eate, and fythens that tyme this exaiat faw him nott. 7. To the vij th he fayeth he this exaiat was at home all the weeke before Eafter untyll good frydaye, when he went from whome to Burrant and there tarryed untyll the Tewifdaye in Eafter weeke. 8. To the viij th he faieth that on thurfdaye before Eafter or thereaboutes the fayde Braye was at his houfe as he hath before fayde/ and further fayeth that on thurfday in Eafter Weeke lafte his brother George Fortefcue and one Feny or Fennell fumtymes fervauntes to the Erie of Southhamptone that lafte dyed, were at his faied houfe & ftayed there a meale or two, the certeintie whereof he remembreth nott, and they went awaye the next morning. Butt from whens they came this exaiat knoweth nott, ond they fayed they woolde go from his houfe to Burrant or to Tytchfeelde to the executors of the fayde late Erie of Southampton to receyve their annuyties then due, and afterwardes on Satterdaye lafte there came this Exaiats cooffen Alexander Cufande to this exaiates houfe and in his companye there came a yonge gentleman whofe name this exaiat knoweth not, and they went awaye from his houfe againe on Sondaye lafte after they hadd dyned. 9. To the ix ,h he faieth that he fpake nott w" 1 the faide Erie nor hard from him at anny tyme fithens his L. being here when he laye in Chichefter, when the L. Barckley was at Chichefter w th him, at w ch tyme he this exaiat hadd futche manner of enterteinement as that he hadd never fancye or lyking to cum unto him or to deale w th him afterwardes and fayeth and affirmeth precifely, that he dydd nott fee the faide Erie fythens the firfte daye of the parlement when he the faide exaiat fawe the faide Erie attending uppon her Ma tie . he the faid exaiat then {landing a farre of w th one M r . Bythell of Winchefter. Appendix. 493 10. To the x ,h this exaiat faieth he hadd no communicacion or fpeetche w" 1 the faid Braye or anny others toutching the faide Erie at any tyme w'hin this monethe nor att anny other tyme w"'in this halfe yere to his remembranns. 11. 12. 13. To the xj th xij ,h & xiiij ,h he faieth he hadd no manner of notice or underftanding by anny meanes or from anny man in the worlde of the Erie his intencion to paffe over the feas, neither was there anny comunication betweene the faide Braye & him toutching anny paflage or travaile beyond the feas, faving that this exaiat dydd defire the faide Braye when he was lafte with him before Eafter to tell him this exaiat when or howe he might fend fum token or remembrauns to his poore uncle Jeffrey Poole (lying in Roane as he thincketh) and for that purpofe afked the faide Braye, whether he knewe of anny paflage into thofe parties by anny man/ who awnfwered he dydd nott then knowe of anny/ Butt fayde that he thought aboute fortnight thens he coulde fend him fum token thyther if he woulde. 14. To the xiiij"' he faieth that on Thurfdaye lafte this exaiat feeing his man Baker and aflcing him where he hadd beene, he tolde him that M 1 . Braye the daye before hadd required him the faide Baker to gyde him through the Forreft of Stanfted & the faide Baker thercuppon going w"'him and other that came w"' him required him to ryde further w"' them as farre as Porchefter or Portefdowne or thereaboutcs & fo he dydd & there he lefte them, and they fent back two geldingesby him whereof he faide that the faide Braye hadd fent unto this exaTat one gelding w' 1 ' he hadd promifed to fend him, and the other gelding he hadd geeven to the faide Baker. 15. To the xv lh he fayeth that on Wedenefdaye lafte this exaiat comyng from his neighbor M'. George Gunter his houfe aboute x or xj of the clock at night he having beene there ail that after- noone, his Cofl'cn Edyth Cufande tolde this exaiat that the faide Braye, hadd beene there that after- noone & called for a cupp of beare butt ftayed nott but went aweyc prefently/ and whether he hadd a cupp of beare or nott this exaiat cannott tell, butt marveled at his hafty departure thincking that he hadd hadd fum fodden or hafty occaflon by reafon of fum purfuite for or uppon fum matter of religion or for heareing of fum mafle. 16. To the xvi"' he fayeth that one of the faide geldinges being fent to this exaiat he the fayde exaiat hath putt to pafture into Stanfted parclc, where he hyreth pafture for the fame & others & the other gelding this exaiat caufed the faide Maker to fell unto the faide Alexander Cufande this cxaiates kinfman for fyve poundes w'h this exaiat ought to the faid Alexander w ,h fyve poundes this exaiat dydd fett outc uppon other reckeninges betweene him h the faide Baker. 17. To the xvij"' he fayeth that he fent his faide gelding to grafle by Robart Hamond, w'h gelding w ,h one or two others of his naggs & his Auntes, he thincketh the faid Robert Hamond dydd putt to grafle uppon Sundaye in the after noone or mondaye in the morning, for fo he this exaiat coinaunded they ftioulde be. Further he being afked whether Baker or anny other dydd nott tell him, that Braye hadd moved him the faid Baker or delt w"'him beforefaid to gyde him or to conduct him or the fayde Erie, or anny other in anny vyagc or journey or for or toward anny paflage eyther to the fea or from the fca He fayde that the faide Baker tolde him aboute fennight pafte that the faide Braye hadd Ipokcn to him the fayde Baker at his lafte being at Lurtingtone before Eafter to ryde w"' him foure or fyve myles/ And further he confefleth that the fayde Braye at his being at this cxaiates houfe Ipake to this exaiat and required him that he woolde geeve leave unto the faid Baker to ryde fyve or fixe myles w" 1 the fayde Braye, when he ftioulde have occafion to cum that wave,/ whereunto this exaiat fayde that the favde 494 Appendix. Baker hadd a nagg of his owne and fhoulde or might ryde w ,h him if he needed, or wordes to futche or lyke effeft./ Moreover he being afked whether the faide Baker dydd ever tell him this exaiat the names of anny of thofe he gyded or conducted w th the faide Braye. He fayde that the fayde Baker dydd never tell him the names of anny of them more then of the faide Braye, Although he this exaiat dydd verry erneftely inquire and afke of the fayde Baker the names of them and dydd alfo afke whether anny of the acquaintances of the faid exalat, and the faide Baker awnfwered verry directly and precifely that he knewe none of them nor the names of anny of them/ more then of the fayde Braye. Anthony Fortescu. R. Lewkenor. Endorfed: — 20 April 1585. Examinaon of Anthony Fortefcu. The exaiacon of Anthony Fortescue taken the xxij™ daye of Aprill, 1585. On Mondaye he protefted he never hard of the Erie his apprehenfion untyll that morning after he came to Chichefter. He being afked whether there were anny boddy that came unto him or was fent unto him w th anny manner of meffage or advertifement from anny perfon or perfons on Frydaye or Satterdays lafte. Whereunto he awnfwered verry precifely and directly that there came no meffenger or meffage from anny perfon or perfons of anny forte eyther fervingman or other on Frydaye or Satterdaye lafte eyther by daye or by night. He being alfo afked at whatt tyme of the daye Braye and the refte came to his houfe on Wednef- daye in the Eafter weeke, and howe longe they ftayed there. He awnfwered that itt was betweene fixe and feven of the clock in the afternoone when they came thither or rather neare feven of the clock as he judgeth for that his wyfFe tolde him the evening being in fo as his wyffe being that daye fumwhat fickly looked oute of her chamber "wyndowe & fawe the fayde Braye {landing at the halle doore & thother ftanding at the pale of the courte, fhee fpake to the fayde Braye and defired him to ftaye untyll this exaiat her hufband came, faying he was butt hard by at M r . Gunters & that fhee woolde fende for him bye & by, but the fayde Braye fayed he hadd greate hafte in his waye and coulde by no meanes ftay/ but defired to have fum beare to drynck faying that fo mutche they mought have hadd att anny ftraungers houfe if they hadd called for itt./ And this exaiat afking his wiffe verry precifely h erneftly whether there were anny of his acquaintans amongeft them or whether fhee knewe anny of them, fhee tolde him verry directly fhee knewe none of them butt Braye, & thother ftanding at the pale fhee coulde nott difcerne their faces itt being fumwhat darck. He being further afked whether Robert Hamond, came to Chichefter w 1 ' 1 him or to him on Satter- daye laft and what newes he brought w th him. He awnfwered that he came nott w th him to Chichefter on Satterdaye lafte, butt came to him to Chichefter in the afternoone aboute foure or fyve of the clock and confeffeth that the faide Robert Hamond dydd then tell him that he hard that Braye was taken and that the Erie of Arrundell was taken w'h him./ And he confeffeth lykewife that when he came home the fame night he fynding his kinf- man Alexander Cuffande and a ftraunger there w th him, they tolde him that they hadd harde at Alton Appendix. 495 as they came through the Towne that the Erie of Arrundell was taken, and one Braye a preefte was taken w'h him. Butt the manner of the taking of them or the caufe of their taking they fayde nothing of. And he confefleth that the next daye when Alexaunder CufFande bought one of the geldinges he told him that it was a gelding that Braye hadd geeven unto Baker. And he fayeth when he came from home he willed Robert Hamond to carry the other gelding to Stanfted parck or to anny place elfe where he thought he coulde gett good pafture for him. And fayeth he knoweth nott whyther or to what place the faide Robert Hamond went on Mondaye lafte nor where he now is./ Butt thincketh if he be ftepped or Hypped afyde itt is for feare of troble for matter of religion and for nothing elfe. Anthony : Fortescu. Rn. Lewkenor. Endorfed : — 22' 1 April, 1585. The examination of Anthonie Fortefcue. The examinacion of Edwarde Poe taken the xx"' of Aprill, 1589. The faid Edwarde faith that yefternight late the faid cxaiat ftanding by Richard Baker, the fayde Richard Baker tolde this cxaiat that he cared nott what coulde be layde unto him, butt hoped he flioulde efkape oute of this troble well enough for he fayde they coulde laye nothing to his charge except itt were for gyding certein gentlemen over Portefdowne the lafte weeke & fayde that uppon Wednefdaye there dydd two gentlemen ryde to the howfe of the faide M r . Fortefcue at Lurtingtone and there one of them having gone in came oute againe and founde the fayde Richard Baker at the poundc in cutting of his matters lambes and there intreated him the fayde Baker to be a gyde for them over Portefdowne into the Ifle of Portefey w Erafed in origiiul. 6 Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. fur le fieu es Petis et fur le fieu au Senefchal et pane la caiche au Senefchal par mie. Et en doit au Seigneur du Buiflon xij boifleaux davene a la grant mefure ij pains ij guelines. Et fi doibt une journee de carue une fois lan. Et doit laie tierche pour chefcune vergie ung parify quant elle chiet. Et doit fervice dun homme a faire les fains tous les jours que meftier en fera et fi doit les autres fervices tiex et femblables comme il eft devife en fieu Pierres Ofber. Item le Uit iRaoul tient le fieu Poubel par vj vergies de terre par foy et par hommaige et par refleantife alTavoir a la rive de Poupeville joufce le fieu Varon. Et en doit vj parifis pour laie tierche et fi doit une journee de carue une fois lan qui doit avoir iiij deniers pour livrefon et doit fervife de ung homme a faire les fains au Seigneur toutes fois que meftier en fera. Et aufi doit ung homme chefcun an a aidier acurer le buy du moulin du Buiflon jufcque a la planque Cannin et fi doit aidie a amener les meulles quant eux faudront au moulin du Buiflon de par toult le bailliage de Coftentin et les doit aidier a meftre hault fur la gavelle du moulin avecque les autres hommes et doit reliefs quant il chaent et doit tous ycieux fervices comme il eft devife en fieu Pierres Ofber. Tient le fieu au Senechal par iiij acres de terre par foy et hommaige et par reflantife et en doit au dit Seigneur lui et fes parchonniers viij boifleaux de fourment iiij boifleaux davene a la Saint Michel, v. guelines et demie et vij deniers pour pains a Noel v foulz a la Sainte Perrenelle et xvj parifis pour laye tierche. Et fi doit une journee de carue une fois lan qui doit avoir iiij deniers pour livrefon et fi doit les fervices deubz au Buyflbn tiex et femblables comme il eft devife en fieu Pierres Ofber. #temterement en tient en fon mefuage xxiij perques et iij pies de terre joufce Thomas le Breton dit Gaillart et la terre au Seigneur de Montquoq des coftes bute fur Raoul Hervieu et fur la caiche au Senefcal des bus. 31^01 le dit Hamelin en tient xxxiij perques et demie joufce la terre au Seigneur de Monquoq et Thomas Caran des coftes bute fur le dit Hamelin et fur la terre Ofber qui tient Jehan Hervie defbus. Jttttl le dit Hamelin en tient une vergie et demie joufce la caiche au Senefcal. 31^^ ^ e &t Hamelin en tient une vergie et demie de lautre part de la caiche au Senefcal. 31t0tTl le dit Hamelin en tient une vergie de terre aflavoir endiq au Fournier joufce ledit Hamelin des coftes bute fur Raoul Trubleville et fur le dit Hamelin defbus. en tient une vergie ij perques et ix pies de terre joufce le douyt Veroil et les heirs Guilleme Hermey des coftes bute fur Ricart Hamelin et fur Thomas le Breton defbus. ^ttttl le dit Raoul en tient une vergie aflavoir foubs le gardin Henri Aubree joufce Thomas Caran des coftes bute fur Thomas le Breton dit Gaillart et fur la hogue au Fournier defbus. Et en doit fon aportant des rentes et fervices deflus dis. Char trier de Richart Fortefcu. 7 en tient une vergie ij perques et ix pies de terre joux Raoul Hervieu. 31 tCIH. le dit Hermey en tient une vergie et v. perques en la terre Ofber joufce Thomas le Breton et le dit Hermey des coftes bute fur Thomas Caran des bus. Et en doit fon aportant des rentes et fervices deflus dis. en tient une vergie et xiiij perques aflavoir fur la caiche au Senefcal joufce Jehan Hermey et Robert Lemor a caufe de fa fame des coftes bute fur Raoul Hervieu et fur Jehan Hermey defbus. Jttttl ledit Caran en tient xxxiiij perques et demie joufce Jehan Hermey et les heirs Ricart fo. Fiquet des coftes bute fur Richart Hamelin dun but. JtCllt ledit Caran en tient ij perques et demie en fa caueniere joufce Thomas le Breton dit Gaillart. JfClTl le dit Caran en tient une vergie et viij perques et xv pies joufce la terre Monquoq. JtClH le dit Caran en tient une vergie et demie aflavoir foubz le gardin Henry Aubree joufce Raoul Hervieu et Colin Aubree le viel a caufe de fa fame des coftes bute fur Thomas le Breton et fur la hogue au Fournier des bus. Et en doit fon aportant des rentes et fervices deflus dis. *t£&oma« le Breton di t Gaillart Ricart Hamelin et Robert Lemor a caufe de fa fame en tiennent une vergie et demie xij perques et xvij pies de terre joufce le douyt Veroil et Thomas Caran des coftes bute fur Raoul Hervieu des bus. Et en doyvent leur a portant des rentes et fervices deflus dis. 3CtCm Thomas le Breton dit Gaillart en tient v. perques en fa caveniere joufce Thomas Caran et le dit Breton defcoftes bute fur la caiche au Senefchal et fur Thomas Caran des bus. Et en doit fon aportant des rentes et fervices deflus dis. Ttcm Ricart IDameUn Tient le fieu au Fournier par iij acres de terre par foy et par hommaige et par refleantife et en doit lui et fcs perchonniers xix deniers a la Sainte Pcrrennelle j pain de manfe une gueline a Noel. Et doit xij parifls pour laie tierche et doit une journec de carue une fois lan quant t> . il plaira au Seigneur, qui doit avoir iiij deniers pour livrefon. Et doit les fervices deubz au Buiflbn tiex et femblables comme il font devifes et defclares au fieu Pierres Ofber. ©rcmiercment ie dit ainfne en tient en fon mefuage xviij perques et demie qui doyvent la reflean- tife joufce Colin Aubree le viel et la voie de iij pies des coftes bute fur la rue de Pouppcvillc. Tfrcill le dit ainfnee en tient xxx perques foubz le gardin Henri Aubree joufce la fame Colin Aubree le viel des coftes bute fur Thomas le Breton dit Gaillart et Thomas Caran des bus. 3itCI1l le dit ainfnee en tient une vergie, xv perques et demie aflavoir en la hogue au Fournier joufce les Hervcys et le dit ainfne des coftes bute fur Henri Aubree et fur la caiche au Senefchal des bus. JtCIll le dit ainfne en 8 Char trier de Richart Fortefcu. tient une vergie xviij perques etdemie aflavoir au diq au Fournier joufce Henri Aubree et les Hermeis des coftes bute fur le dit ainfne defbus. 3|t£ttt le dit ainfne en tient une vergie ij perques et xiij pies aflavoir en die au Fournier joux Henry Aubree et Raoul Hervieu dun cofte et dautre joufce le dit ainfne bute fur Raoul Trubleville et fur le dit ainfne des bus. dolm Hutiree ie viel en tient a caufe de fa fame une vergie et demie et xv perques aflavoir foubz le gardin Henry Aubree joufce Ricart Hamelin des coftes en ij pieches butent fur Thomas le Breton dit Gaillart et fur Thomas Caran defbus. 31 tZXti le dit Colin Aubree a caufe de fa fame en tient une vergie et demie aflavoir en la hogue au Fournier joufce les Hermeys et les fofles fur quoy les camps de Pouppeville butes des coftes bute fur Thomas le Breton dit Gaillart et fur la caiche au Senefcal defbus. Et en doit fon aportant des rentes et fervices deflus dis. dit Gaillart a caufe de fa' fame en tient xv perques de terre aflavoir foubz le gardin Henri Aubree joufce Perrin le Marquant et Colin Aubree a caufe de fa fame des coftes bute fur le dit Gaillart et fur Colin Aubree defbus. Et en doit fon aportant des rentes et fervices deflus dis. JLLZ5 Ij5CttTl0l0 en tiennent une vergie et demie aflavoir a la hogue au Fournier joufce Ricart Hamelin et Colin Aubree a caufe de fa fame des coftes bute fur Henri Aubree et fur la caiche defbus. 31ttm les Hermeis en tiennent demie vergie aflavoir en camp de la voiete joufce Ricart Hamelin et Raoul Hervieu des coftes bute fur Ricart Hamelin defbus. 31 tCITl les Hermeis en tiennent une vergie vj perques et demie joufce la caiche au Senefcal et Thomas le Breton des coftes bute fur hogue au Fournier et fur Thomas le Breton dit Gaillart defbus. Et en doivent leur a portant des rentes et fervices deflus dis. Tient le fieu Renouf Johe par iij acres de terre par foy et par hommaige et par refleantife et en doit luy et fes perchonniers ix foulz et demy a la Sainte Perrenelle j pain une gueline a Noel et xij parifis pour laie tierche. Et doit une journee de carue qui doit avoir iiij deniers pour livrefon et doit les fervices tiex et femblables comme le fieu Pierres Ofber. le dit Trubleville en tient viij vergies et xx perques toult en une pieche aflavoir a la rive qui doit la refleantife joufce le fieu Crefpin des coftes bute fur la mer et fur Ricart Hamelin fo. 9. defbus. 31ttW ^ en t ' ent une ver gie et vij perques aflavoir foubz la refleantife Varon joufce le fie Varon et le fieu Crefpin des coftes bute fur Thomas le Breton dit Gaillart et fur Raoul Hervieu des bus. Char trier de Richart Fortefcu. 9 en tient demie acre et une perque et vj pies de terre aflavoir en die es Petis joufce Raoul Hervieu et Thomas le Breton dit Gaillart des coftes bute dun but fur la hogue au Four- nier et dautre but fur le die es Petis que tient Gaillart. Et en doit fon aportant des rentes et fervices deflus dis. dit Gaillart tient le fieu es Petis per iiij acres de terre par foy et par hom- maige et par refleantife et en doit luy et fes perchonniers vij deniers pour pains et iiij guelines a Noel et xxx oeufs a Pafques et doit xvj parifis pour laye tierce et doit une journee de carue une fois lan quant il plet au Seigneur qui doit avoir iiij deniers pour livrefon et doit les fervices tiex et femblables comme ils font devifes en fieu Pierres Ofber. temiCtCmCnt le dit Gaillart en tient en fon mefuage qui doit la refleantife et en fes ij gardins une vergie de terre joufce Thomas le Blont des coftes bute dun but fur le douyt Veroil et dautre but fur la rue du hamel. JtetTt le dit Guillart en tient en mefuage qui fut Robert le Petit ix perques de terre joufce la rue et Henry Aubree des coftes bute dun but fur Henri Aubree et dautre but fur fa caueniere que il tient du fieu au Senefcal. JtClll le dit Gaillart tient ung autre hoquet de terre aflavoir joufce le gardin Henri Aubree contenant viij perques et xviij pics. TtClll le dit Gaillart en tient iij vergies aflavoir en die es Petis joufce Robin Hervieu et Thomas le Blont des coftes bute fur fo. 9 b . le dit Gaillart et fur la hogue au Fournier des bus. 3tCTtl ' c Gaillart en tient v. vergies et xxx perques aflavoir en bas die es Petis joufce la caichc au Senefcal et le dit Fournier des coftes bute fur Raoul Hervieu et fur le dit Gaillart des bus. en tient xix perques et iiij pies en fon mefuage joufce Thomas le Breton dit Gaillart des coftes bute dun but fur la voie de iij pies et autre but fur la rue de Pouppeville. Et en doit fon aportant des rentes et fervices deflus dis. etlti CltllUTC en tient ij perques et xiij pies de terre aflavoir joufce la rue et le dit Henry des coftes bute dun but fur la voie de iij pies et dautre but fur Thomas le Breton dit Gaillart. Et en doit fon aportant des rentes et fervices deflus dis. a caufe de fa fame en tient une mefon aflavoir illenc contenant une perque et ix pies de terre joufce la rue et Thomas le Blont des cofles bute fur Thomas le Breton dit Gaillart ct fur Thomas le Blont des bus. Et en doit fon aportant des rentes et fervices etc. 2 IO Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. en tient une vergie et viij pies de terre aflavoir joufce la caiche au Senefcal et Thomas Caran des coftes bute fur Raoul Hervieu et fur Ricart Hamelin des bus. Et en doit fon aportant des rentes et fervices deflus dis. fo. io. ^f^lCfltt IjDfttttClin en tient une vergie et viij pies a terre aflavoir au die au Fournier joufce la vergie que le dit Hamelin tient du fieu au Senefcal et le dit Hamelin des coftes bute fur le dit Hamelin et fur Raoul Trubleville des bus. 3! tCttl le dit Hamelin en tient une vergie aflavoir au die au Four- nier joufce Thomas le Bretone dit Gaillart et le dit Hamelin des coftes bute fur Raoul Hervieu et fur Raoul Trubleville des bus. Et en doit fon aportant des rentes et fervices deflus dis. en tient xxxv perques aflavoir au die au Fournier joufce Thomas le Blont et le camp de la Voiete des coftes bute fur la hogue au Fournier et fur le die au Fournier des bus. Et en doit fon a portant des rentes et fervices etc. doit ung quartier de avene a la graunt mefure a la Saint Michiel a prendre fur demie acre de terre et vj perques qui font du fieu Ricart le Fevre aflavoir fur le douyt qui vient de to. io b . Mangneville au hamel es Fontenes joufce Pierres le Paillier et Maflieu le Franchoiz des coftes bute dun but fur le douyt qui vient de Magneville et dautre but fur le heres Colin de Maire. %)0tUH£t It IfiailUZK filz Thomas doit chinq boifleaux de fourment a la graunt mefure pour v perques et demie de terre fa chambre feante dedens et fon courtil qui eft du fieu Ricart le Feivre joufce le dit Perrinet dun cofte et Mons' Guille aux Efpaulles chevalier dautre cofte bute dun but fur le quemin qui vient de la cauchie au moftier de Sain&e Marie du Mont et dautre but fur la maifon meuable dudit Paillier. CColin le Dunes filz au Cochon doit demy boiflel de fourment a la grant mefure pour demie vergie de terre aflavoir en fon gardin joufce le douyt qui va du hamel es Fontenes ala quemine de Holedic dun cofte bute dun but fur le prey es Pailliers. Hofom le Dunes filz Perrin doit iij foulz tournois a la Saint Michel ij guelines a Noel o hom- maige a juftice une pieche de prey aflavoir en Corbuchon joufce Pierres Hapelin dun cofte et le dit Robin et les heres Guilleme Greute dautre but fur le die de Dallibuc. Char trier de Richart Fortefcu. CfuiHeme ne la ^Fontaine le viel doit iij cabos de fourment mefure Deftaville a juftice fur une fb. pieche de terre contenant viron trente perques aflavoir en la croute au Feivre fur le hamel es Fontenes joufce le Seigneur du Buiflbn a caufe de la terre que fut es Bourdes dun cofte et Collecle Bourdet de guerpie Colin Mauduit dautre bute fur Michelet le Paillier dun but et dautre but fur la dicle Collette Bourdet. %)etUn l0 T50Utlllet doit chinq boifleaux de fourment a la grant mefure j pain une gueline x. oeufz a juftice fon mefuage fi comme il fe pourporte en lone et en ley contenant xvij perques et xviij pies de terre joufce la voie qui va du hamel es Fontenes au moftier de Saincle Marie du Mont dun cofte et dautre cofte joufce Jehan Quefnet a caufe de fa fame bute dun but fur le chemetiere de Saincle Marie du Mont et dautre but fur le fieu Crefpin de la vente Robin Vibet de Carenten et eft le tene- ment deflus dit du fieu Ricart le Feivre. dit Segur doit v. foulz a la Sainte Perronnelle a juftice fa mefon mevable et fon courtil aflavoir devant le chemetiere de Saincle Marie du Mont contenant vij perques et ix pies de terre par mefure joufce Perrin Boutillier et Jehan Ojuefnet a caufe de fa fame des coftes bute dun but fur le chemetiere et dautre but fur le dit Quefnet. jCtetTl le dit Segur doit ung quartier de fourment foy et hommaige pour une pieche de terre con- tenant demie acre iij perques et xv pies de terre aflavoir fur le hamel es Pailliers joux le Seignor du Buiflbn et la voie qui vient du hamel es Pailliers au moflier de Saincle Marie du Mont defcoftes bute dun but fur le douyt qui vient de Magneville au hamel es Fontenes et dautre but fur Perrinet le fo. Paillier filz Thomas et fur la terre qui fut Hebert le Vanier et eft la terre deflus dicle du fieu Ricart le Feivre. Ec0 bcr0 Eicatt le (UuiDel d oyv ent j quartier de fourment o hommaige pour demie acre de terre aflavoir en ij pieces, la premiere eft aflavoir es boqucs de la Morandicre joufce le quemin qui vient du hamel es Fontenes au moftier de Saincle Marie du Mont et le fieu Crefpin des coftes butt- dun but fur le dit quemin et dautre fur Perrin Vincent dit Segur a caufe de la terre que il tient de Jehan Guift'f la fegonde pieche eft aflavoir en clos Jehan Guefnet a caufe de fa fame dcriere la mefon qui fut Ricart Morant joufce Jehan Guefnet a caufe de fa fame et le quemin qui vient du hamel es Fontenes au moftier de Saincle Marie du Mont des coftes bute dun but fur la dite mefon qui fut Ricart Morant et dautre but fur le fieu Crefpin. He mefuage qui fut Hebert le Vanier fi comme il fc pourporte en lone et en ley avec ij hoques de terre qui font de hors le dit mefuage en but contienant une vergie et demie de terre par mefure 12 Char trier de Richart Fortefcu. joufce la voie qui vient du hamel es Pailliers au moftier de Sain£te Marie du Mont et le mefuage qui fut Jehan Piquot qui eft a prefent Perrinet le Paillier filz Thomas des coftes bute dun but fur le que- min qui vient de la cauchie Deftoqueville au moftier de See Marie du Mont. Et daultre but fur la voie de fur dite. Et prent le Seignor du Buiflbn fur ceft tenement iij. boifleaux de fourment, ij pains, ij. guelines et xx. oeufs et eft du fieu Ricart le Feivre. to. iz. *Cff)omas le 'Breton dit Gaillart doit j. quartier davene a la grant mefure de la vente Eftie le Couftour a juftice une pieche de terre contenant iij vergies aflavoir en fieu es Petis joufce la caiche au Senefcal et le dit Gaillart a caufe de fa fame des coftes bute dun but fur le fieu Varon que tient Raoul Hervieu et dautre but fur le dit Gaillart a caufe de fa fame et fur ung hoquet de terre que Robert le Petit vendit anciennement a Pierres Lacville daultre but. Guillaume Vannonnoisel, sen/. (Seneschal). to. i 3. Ce font its rentes lie ^atnte Itflarte Du Mont qui ne font pas en franc fieu. ^remierement doit ung quartier de fourment a la grant mefure j. pain une gueline et x. oeufs o hommaige a faire juftice fur une piece de terre contenant iij vergies aflavoir a Eftaville joufce Thomas Bernart et la terre qui Perrin Lefpiffier dit Eftuquebonnel foulloit tenir de Thomafle aux Efpaulles des coftes et bute des bus fur le quemin Deftaville tendant au moftier et fur le quemin de la voie Hommoife tentante Deftaville a Franqueville de la vente Jehan des Plains efcuier fi comme il appert par lettre. Baoul a^anfel doit fept boifleaux de fourment mefure Deftaville ij. guelines o hommaige a faire juftice fur deux pieces de terre, la premiere aflavoir joufce la caiche es Manfeaux dun cofte et dautre cofte joufce la terre que Colin Sebire tient de 3|el)an ifOCtefCU et bute dun but fur le douyt de la fontaine Saint Martin et de lautre but fur le dit Raoul, la fegonde piece es Mollans joufce le dit Raoul dun cofte bute dun but fur le terrour de Bouteville de la vente Jehan des Plains. ^pwttfe went- UErpi0 Colin Mauduit demie vergie joufce le dit Sebire et le dit Bourdet des coftes bute fur la dicle damoifelle et fur le dit Bourdet des bus. IHJaOlll QfJanfCl une vergie joufce le dit Raoul et Rogict Bermont des coftes bute fur le dit Raoul et fur le terrour de Bouteville des bus. une vergie es camps joufce le dit Thomas Bourdet et la dicle de guerpic des coftes bute fur la dicte damoyfelle et fur le dit Bourdet des bus. 3 1 8 Char trier de Richart Fortefcu. Ees f>er0 Colin JRotnc&e xxxj. perque de terre es fofle joufce les dis heres et Rogiet Bermont des coftes bute fur le dit Raoul et fur le terrour de Bouteville des bus. Hosier IBermont xv. perques de terre illec joufce les dis heres et le dit Raoul des coftes bute fur le dit Raoul et fur le dit terrour des bus. to. , 9 . Ees fjers 3e&anne tie ^atnt martin vergie et demie et xj perques en fon mefuage et en fa croute joufce Colin Lefpicier bute fur le dit Efpicier, Ec0 fjers Canton Eouflelm, vergie et demie en Guevemare joufce la didte damoyfelle bute fur le queminet. Outc&art De la ^aule v. vergies de terre en Lalande joufce Jehan de Hauville bute fur le terrour de Hieville. Of olm JLefpicier xxx perques de terre aflavoir en fa ^croute joufce le tenement que fut Jehenete de Saint Martin et le dit Efpicier des coftes bute fur le dit Efpicier et fur Raoul Manfel des bus. 31 tCtll de une acre al a mare es Vis joufce le dit Efpicier et eft vaindic des coftes bute fur la di£te damoi- felle et fur Robin Sauvegrin des bus. 31^^ demie vergie a la mare au Nourry joufce le dit Efpicier et Raoul Manfel des coftes bute fur le quemin qui va de Boutemarefc ******* ** et fur le dit Efpicier des bus. HeS btW Pfrilttpe le IBtaCfjeUr, vergie et demie au Hamel es fuours en Bougon jou£ * **##*#######2 31 tCttl une vergie et xxx. perques a la maifon au Maignien joufce Thomas Bernart bute fur le terrour de Hieville et la fouloit tenir Perres le Coq. Et en doit la di£te efnee et fes perchonniers vij d' pour chefcun vergie pour acquit pafle par la main de la dicle ainfnee. to. i9 b . Batllie par fin de teneur cefte ainfneche par damoifelle Jehanne Beaugendre ainfnee du dit fieu es pies du dit jforttfCU tenus a Eftaville parmoy Jehan Barbey fenefchal du dit jfOCtcCcU lan mil XX ccc.iiii et fept le Mercredi xvij jour de Juillet. 1 Blank in original. 2 Ibid. Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. 19 tient du dit fieu Deftaville luy et fes perchonniers par xv. acres de terre par foy et par hommaige et par refleantize lainefche qui fut Simon Manfel et en doit luy et fes perchonniers xxv. foulz tournois au jour Sainte Perronnelle vij d. pour pains iij guelines et demie a Noel done il ya des xv acres deflus dictes vj acres qui font du fieu apelle le fieu du Luminaire es quelles vj acres Perres Bloville fe dit avoir le droit de gaige et plege. Et font fubjecte es rentes deflus dictes alans au dit efcuier per la main du dit Raoul. Et yprent le dit Bloville xij deniers pafle par la main Colin Pain et le roy yprent j boiflel et demy de bernaige par la main des hers Henri Houchart pour les quelles rentes alants audit jfOTttfCU il peult faire fa juftice par lui ou par fon prevoft Deftaville fur et toultes les didtes xv. acres de terre. Et en doit reliefz xiii. fervice de prevofte et les aides couftumieres quant ilz chaient. ^remterement. JiC Dit IRilOUl en tient en fa main en fon mefuage ou il demoure demie acre joufce les religieux de Blanqueland et le dit Raoul des coftes bute fur lequemin par quoy len va Deftaville a Sainte Marie du Mont. en f° n autre mefuage iij vergies et x perques joufce Thomaflet Bourdet et Robin Beaudre des coftes bute fur le dit quemin et pafle la caiche permy per quoy len va a la Fontaine Saint Martin. fjt£tTl en fa croute v. vergies joufce Jehanne Beaugendre et Ricart Hauchemail des coftes bute fur la voie Hommefe. JtCfll une vergie et x perques joufce Jehanne Beaugendre et Colin Lefpicier des coftes bute fur la dicle voie. 3 tCtlt vergie et demie es rondeaux joufce le dit Raoul des coftes bute fur le dit Colin Lefpicier 31 tCllt vergie et demye es befques joufce le dit Raoul et Jehan le Clerc defcoftes bute fur ledit Raoul. 31 tCtlt une acre en prael joufce ledit Efpicier et Jehanne Beaugendre des coftes bute fur le dit quemin. 31tCtll iij vergies en dit prael joufce Robin Beaugendre et Colin Lefpicier des coftes bute fur le dit quemin. in e^anfcl dit Lef P i cier en tient demie vergie en fon mefuage joufce Pouquefontaine et bute a la voie qui va a Hieville. JfCllI en fa granche et en fa croute demie acre joufce le dit Colin et la didte voie des coftes bute fur Lalande. ^tCltt 1. perques joufce Raoul Manfel des coftes bute fur le dit quemin qui va Deftaville a Sainte Marie du Mont. 3; tCtlt 1. perques a la grifc pierre joufce Thomas Menart et le dit Colin des coftes bute fur le clos au Nourry. JtCUl xxxv. perques illec joufce le dit Colin et Jaquet le Coq des coftes bute fur le dit clos. 7tCllt une vergie de terre ou viron qui fut Jehan le Ffraey a caufe de fa fame joufce Perrin Rouflelin et Thomas Bourdet des coftes bute fur le dit clos. TfltTrit demie vergie a la mare au Nourry joufce le dit Raoul Manfel et le dit Colin des coftes bute fur le terrour de Blouville. 20 Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. Xefmnne TBeaugentire en tient une acre et xv perques joufce la di£te Jehanne et la caiche par quoy len va a La Fontaine des coftes bute furle douyt Deftaville. ^ItXttl xxx. perques es foffe joufce Thomas Leroy et Colin Baftart des coftes bute fur la di£re Jehanne. 33 tCITl xxx perques en Repen- tigny joufce Robin Beaugendre des coftes bute fur le quemin Deftaville. 31^W ver gi e et demie et iiij perques en Guevemare joufce la terre qui fut Sanfon Rouffelin et Robert Beaugendre des coftes bute fur le queminet. 31^^ xxxv. perques en la croute Raoul Manffel joufce le dit Raoul bute fur la voie Hommefe. fo. zo>. Qoiin 3|amet demie vergie de terre joufce Robin Beaugendre et le dit Colin des coftes bute fur le douyt Deftaville. Outctmrt ne ia Gaulle demie acre en Lormal joufce Perrin Rouffelin et les heirs Henri Bourdet des coftes bute fur Thomas Bourdet. une vergie a la Mare Liegart jou£ Perrin Maillart et Jehan le Clerc des coftes et paffe le quemin parmy. lefmn le Clerc une vergie illec joufce le dit Perrin et Jehan le Caretel et paffe le dit quemin parmy. 3|t£ttt vergie et demie de terre es beques joufce le dit Raoul Manfel, des coftes bute fur le dit Raoul. xxviij. perques es foffe joufce le dit Raoul et Colin Baftart des coftes bute au terrour de Bouteville. CCoim lBacon une vergie et xij perques es foffe jou£ Jehanne Beaugendre et Jehan le Clerc des coftes bute fur ledit terrour. lefjennet le s@arc&ant vergie et demie de terre en la grife pierre jou£ Colin Jamet et Thomas Menart bute fur le clos au Nourry. vergie et demie illec joufce le dit Jouhan et Colin Lefpicier des coftes bute fur le dit clos. laouet le Coq une vergie a la grife pierre joufce Colin Lefpicier et Perrin Rouffelin des coftes bute fur le dit clos. Char trier de Richart Fortefcu. 21 %)0trin JROllflClin une vergie joufce ledit Efpicier et le dit Jaquet des coftes bute fur le dit clos. JtCttt une vergie illec joufce le dit efpicier et Thomaflet Bourdet des coftes bute fur le dit clos. xxiiij perques de terre joufce le dit Efpicier et Perrin Rouflelin des coftes bute fur le dit clos. Jtnit xxv. perques ou viron joufce le dit Raoul et les dis religieux de Blanque- lande des coftes bute fur le quemin par quoy len va Deftaville au moftier de Sainte Marie du Mont. OColin ^auuecpram demie acre de terre a la maifon au Maiguien joufce Sanfon Robelin et Jehanne Beaugendre des coftes bute fur le dit quemin. Jttm xxv. perques a Vautierbu joufce le dit Efpicier et le dit Sauvegrein des coftes bute fur le quemin par quoy len vient de Bouteville a Eftaville. une vergie a la maifon au Maiguien joufce le dit Sauvegrain et Jehanne Beau- to. i gendre des coftes bute fur le quemin par quoy len va Deftaville a Sainte Marie du Mont. ^Cfjan tJ0 Il)CaUtnU£ demie acre et demie vergie joufce Guichart de la Haulle et le dit Raoul des coftes but fur le dit Efpicier. JtClH demie acre es camps des Brears joufce Robin Beaugendre ct Jehan Piegier bute fur le terrour de Bouteville. ^EJaOlll £t9anflCl demie acre et demie vergie en Lalande joufce Jehan de Bcauville et la voie par quoy le va Deftaville a Hicville bute fur le dit Colin Lefpicier. Et doivent le dit Raoul et fes per- chonniers vj deniers pour vergie alans audit JfortCfCll paftants par la main du dit ainfne. ^3ailUC P ar nn de teneur cefte ainefche par Raoul Manflcl ainfne du dit fieu es pies du dit XX jfOTttfCtl tenus a Eftaville par moy Jehan Barbey Senefchal du dit OTtCfCU lan mil ccc iiii et fept le fecond jour de Juillet. tient lainefche es Bourdes par onze acres et demie de terre par foy et par hommaige et par rcfleantize. Et en doit lui et fes pcrchonnicrs iij s. tournois de rente au terme de la Perrenelle ij cappons a Noel ct xx ocufs a Pafques. Et auxi doit reliefs xiij" fervice de prcvofte et les iij aides couftumieres quant eulx chaent. Et auxi en doit le dit Bourdet xiiij manles daide apelle to. i laide de Vernon alante a Neauhou par la main de mon prcvoft. Et mon prevoft la doit paier au prevoft de Monfeignor Guillem aux Efpaillcs chlr lequel les doit paier au prevoft du Baron des Biars a caufe de fa terre de Neauhou le jour de la fefte Saint Nicolas dyver. 22 Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. $remterement He trit C&omas IBourBet en tient en fa main une pieche en fon manoir contenante une acre de terre ou viron joufce Jehan Afnebrun et Perrinet Bourdet des coftes bute fur le douyt qui va de Franqueville au moulin du BuifTon et fur Rogier Bouteville des bus. 31 tCtlT en clos de aval le douyt xxx perques ou viron joufce le dit douyt et la ruel le qui va au hamel de Franqueville des coftes bute fur ledit Perrinet et la de guerpie Colin Mauduit des bus. a la Marete iij vergies et demie de terre ou viron joufce le dit Perrinet et Guilleme de la Fontaine des coftes bute fur Michel le Clerc et fur le dit douyt des bus. 31tntt en Ormal iij vergies de terre ou viron joint a la dicte de guerpie et au diet Perrinet des coftes bute fur Jehan Afnebrun et fur Thomas Bourdet des bus. 3|t£lU a Martinmare demie acre et xviij perques de terre ou viron joufce labbe et convent de Blanquelande et la dicte de guerpie des coftes bute fur Robin le Jolis et le dit Bourdet des bus. 31 tCtTX es Landes une vergie et xxx perques ou viron joufce le dit Perrinet et la dicte de guerpie des coftes bute fur Thomas Bernart des bus. %)emnet 'BOtirDet filz Henry en tient en fon manoir une acre ou viron joux le dit Thomas Bourdet et la dicte de guerpie des coftes bute fur le dit douyt et fur Rogier Boutemelle des bus. 31tnit aval le douyt xxx perques joux ledit douyt et la dicte ruelle des coftes bute fur le dit douyt et fur le dit Thomas des bus. JtetTt illec iiij perques de terre joufce la dicte ruelle et la dicte de guerpie des coftes bute fur elle des bus. 31 tCtlt illec demie vergie en honneleuc joufce la dicte de guerpie des coftes bute fur le dit Rogier et fur le dit Thomas Bourdet des bus. 31 tCITl a la mairete iij vergies et demie ou viron joux la dit vergie et le dit Bourdet des coftes bute fur ledit douyt et fur ledit Michel le Clerc des bus. 3|ttM en Ormal demie acre ou viron joux le dit Thomas Bourdet et les terres Guichart de la Haulle des coftes bute fur le dit Thomas Bourdet et fur ledit Afnebrun des bus. ^tittl a Martinmare demie vergie joux la dicte de guerpie et le dit Guichart des coftes bute fur le dit Thomas Bourdet et fur le dit Jolis des bus. 31 tC 1TI es Landes xv perques ou viron joux le dit Thomas Bourdet et eft honneleuc des coftes bute fur le dit Bernart defbus. GolCte tie glierptC COlin SpatltltUt une vergie et xxx perques de terre en fon manoir joufce le dis Bourdes des coftes bute fur le dit douyt et fur Rogier Boutemelle des bus. 3|t£W en c ^ os nue vergies ou viron joufce la dicte ruelle et Guilleme Herengier des coftes bute fur le quemin de Carentin et fur le dit Perrinet des bus. 31^^ m J P erc l ues joufce la dicte ruelle et la dicte de guerpie des coftes bute fur elle et fur ledit Perrinet des bus. 3|t£ttl a ' a marete V1 j vergies de terre ou viron joufce le dit Michel le Clerc et ledit Perrinet des coftes bute fur ledit Michel et fur le dit douyt des bus. 31 tCttt en Ormal une vergie de terre ou viron joufce le dit ^FOttcCCU et le dit Thomas Bourdet des coftes bute fur le dit Thomas Bourdet et fur le dit Afnebrun des bus. 3|t£ttt a Martinmare xxx perques ou viron joufce les dis Bourdes des coftes bute fur le dit Bourdet et fur le dit Afnebrun des bus. 31^fn es Landes une vergie et xxx perques ou viron joux ledit Bernart des coftes bute fur ledit Bourdet et fur le fieu de Tollenaft des bus. Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. 2 3 trois vergies et demie et chinq perches ou viron en fon mefuage joufce le dit Jolis des coftes bute fur les preaux es Pailliers et fur le quemin qui va du moftier a la maifon Robin des fo. Pons des bus. Xottt e^auclus tient en fon herbegaige x perques de terre joufce Perres Hoeville a caufe de fa fame des coftes bute fur le quemin de Carentin et fur Thomas Bourdet des bus. Et yprent le dit Thomas Bourdet i boiflel de fourment mefure de Tollenaft et j. denier a Noel, et Perres Hoeville vij quartre de fourment a caufe de fa di£te fame. J3flllU0 P ar nn de teneur cefte ainefche par Thomas Bourdet ainfney du dit fieu es pies du dit jfOT- XX tefCU tenus a Eftaville par moy Jehan Barbey fenefchal du dit jfortcfcu lan mil ccciiii et fept le Mercredi ij e . jour de Juillet. Deftaville tient une acre de terre par foy et par hommaige aflavoir a Eftaville fur la Mare Liegart entrans de Martinmare joufce Perrin Guichart a caufe de fa fame et la terre que fouloit tenir Perrin Guefdon dit le Priour des religieux de Blanqueland bute dun but fur Thomas Bourdet et dautre but fur le quemin qui va Deftaville a Sainte Marie du Mont. Et en doit vj boifleaux de fourment j pain une gueline ct x oe^ifs fervice de prevofle reliefs xiii" et les aides couftumiers quant eulz chaient. par fin de teneur es pies defius dis. f 0 Deftaville tient x vergies ct demie de terre par foy et par hommaige et par reflean- tize aflavoir Deftaville en trois pieches. La primiere piece en fon mefuage contenant vergie et demie de terre joufce le tenement que tient le dit Colin de Mons' Guillem es Efpaulles dun cofte et dautre cofte joufce le tenement que tient le dit Colin de Guillem Dannevillc cfcuier a caufe de fa fame bute dun but fur le quemin qui va de la maifon au dit Colin au moftier de Saincle Marie du Mont et dautre but fur le douyt de la croute Saint Martin. La feconde piece enchu trans mefmes contenant iij vergies joufce la terre que tient le dit Colin de Guille Dannevillc cfcuier a caufe de fa fame dun coftey et Jehan le Caretel dautre bute fur le douyt de la croute Saint Martin dun but et dautre fur le quemin qui va de la maifon au dit Colin au moftier de Saint Marie du Mont. La tierche picche appelle le clos qui fut Colin Manfel contenant vj vergies joufce Raoul Manfel dun cofte ct Phote la Petite a caufe du tenement que elle tient de damoifcllc Thomaflc es Efpaulles dautre cofte bute fur le douyt de Saint Martin dun but et dautre but fur le clos que fouloit tenir Perrin Guefdon dit le Priour des religieux de Blanquelande. Et en doit le dit Colin xiiij boifleaux de fourment a la mefure Deftaville j pain j gueline a Noel et x oeufs a Pafques. Et fervice de prevofte reliefs xiij". et aides couftumieres quant eulz chaient. 24 Char trier de Ri chart Fortefcu. par fin de tenour. qui fut Sanfon Ouvris et toutes les terres appartenant au dit mefuage fi comme il fe pourporte en lone et en ley qui font a prefent en ma main font de mon franc fieu Deftaville le quel tenement eft bailli a Thomas Berlin et en doit fept quartiers de fourment et fept quartiers davene, iiij pains, iiij guelines, et xl. oeufs et xx s. tournois a la Parnelle foy et hommaige et reffeantize etdoit fervice de prevofte reliefs et xiij es . et les iij aides couftumieres et eft tenu par vj acres de terre. 3!tCtn le mefuage qui fut Thomaffet le Pallier afTavoir au hamel es Palliers ovec ix vergies de terre affavoir en la croix Deftaville font du dit franc fieu et font a prefent en ma main, etc. 0nfUlt la teneur de la lettre comme Mons' . Guillem des Moftiers chivalier bailla anciennement le franc fieu Deftaville a Raoul de Mons jadis efcuier. tarn prefentes quam futuri quod ego Guillielmus de Monafteriis miles, tradidi ac finaliter dimifi Radulpho de Mons fcutifero tridecim libratas et quatuor folidos tournois annuatim de redditu in exeambio propter omnes redditus et homagia quos habebat et percipiebat annuatim de redditu in parochia de Bellavalle et in parrochia Scl Petri Couftancie de maritagio Lucie uxoris fue et filie mee percipiendas et habendas videlz tridecim libratas et quatuor folidos predi&o Radulpho fcutifero et fuis heredibus a predi£ta Lucia exeuntibus, videlz. in parrochia San&e Marie de Monte et in parrochia San£te Marie Ecclefie videlicet fuper Thoma de Anneville viginti folidos turonenfes quos mihi debebat et reddebat annuatim redditus de quodam molendino ad aquam quod de me tenebat per homa- gium in parrochia Sancle Marie Ecclefie et in parrochia Sancte Marie de Monte fuper tenemento Roberti le Paillier tres bucellos frumenti ad menfuram parrochie fupradi&e duos panes de iiij or denariis turonenfibus duas galinas et tres capones fuper tenemento Thome Bourdet tres folidos duos capones et viginti ova fuper tenemento Rogeri Manffel quinquaginta folidos turonenfes feptem panes de quatuor - decim denariis turonenfibus et feptem galinas. Super Guillelmi Manffel quatuor quarteria et duos bucellos frumenti duos panes de iiij 01 denariis turonenfibus et duas gallinas. Super tenemento Henrici Beruart quinque quarteria et duos bucellos frumenti duos panes de iiij or denariis turonenfibus, tres galinas et decern ova. Super tenemento Petri Ouvris novem quarteria et duos bucellos avene quatuor quarteria frumenti viginti tres folidos turonenfes tres panes et fex denarios turonenfes, iiij 0 gallinas et xx" ova. Super tenemento Henrici Gillebert iiij or quarteria et tres bucellos frumenti et iiij or capones. Super tenemento Rogeri Manffel fenioris duo quarteria frumenti unum panem de duobus denariis turo- nenfibus et unam gallinam. Super tenemento Rogeri di£li Magni tria quarteria frumenti et duas gallinas. Et fuper tenemento di£li Cofinet duo quarteria frumenti ad menfuram fuperius nominatam et unam gallinam. Hec autem omnia fupradicta predi6lus Radulfus et heredes fui a predi&a Lucia uxore fua venientes habebunt et jure hereditario poffidebunt cum omnibus homagiis et juribus que habebam feu habere poteram fuper omnibus tenementis fuperius nominatis. Ita tamen quod ego pre- dicts Guillielmus miles vel heredes mei predidto Radulpho fcutifero et heredibus fuis a predict Lucia uxore fua procreatis fupradidra omnia et fingula garantizare tenemur pro exeambio facto gratanter et Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. 2 5 ab utraque parte conceflb vel excambiare valore ad valorem in meo proprio hereditagio fi predi&os redditus feu quemlibet eorum garantizare non poflemus. Et ut hoc fit firmum et ftabile prefentem cartam figilli mei munimine roboravi. A&um anno gracie mil] m0 . ducentefimo fexagefimo o&avo menfe Maii. ]HtCtTl enfuit la tenour dune autre lettre comme jfcljilll jfortcfctl efcuier a le droit. H tous ceul? qui ces lettres verront ou orront Ricart Coudran chevalier bailie de Madame la Duchefle Dorliens en fes terres de Normendie et garde du fceel desobligacions de la Viconte de Saint Sauveur Lendelin falut. Sachent tous que pardevant Pierres de Marrignie clerc tabellion jure quant a ce furent prefens noble homme et noble dame Mons Guillem de Briqueville chevalier Sire de Laune et dame Marie de Couxi fa fame a la quelle il donna auclorite quant a ce qui confeflerent de leurs bonnes voullentes fans nul contraignement que eulz avoient vendu et tranfporte quitte fefle fo. 25. et delefle a fin deritaige a tous jours mes a 'Jcljiltl jfOTtCfttl efcuier toultes Jes rentes fervices faifiances et redevances homaiges et autres chofes que eulz avoient et pouvent avoir et dcmander en la ville de Sainte Marie du Mont et en la ville de Brucheville foit en franc fieu ou de hors franc fieu en court et ufaige et en toulte autres chofl'es de quil condicion qui! foient fans y riens excepter. Et fut faicSte cede vente par le pris et nombrc de cent et chinquante frans dor du coing du Roy notre Seigneur et de bon poiz tous quittesa la main des dis chevalier et dame done eulz fe tindrent pour bien paies par devant le dit tabellion. Pour quoy il promidrcnt pour eulz et pour leurs heres la didle vente garantir et deft'endre vers tous et contre tous audit jfOTtCfttl et a fes heres par paiant en toute les rentes et redevances qui deubz en font ou ferroient en temps advenir a qui que ce foit que le dit jfOTtCfttl et fes heres en paeront. Et quant a toutes les chofl'es deflus dites et chefcune dicelles tenir faire et a complir en leftat que de fur eft dit et devife les dis chevalier et dame chefcun en fon fait obligerent eulx et leur heres et tous leurs biens mcubles et heritaiges prefens et advenir a estre prins vendus et defpendus par juftice pour deftaute de ce enteigner. Et pour les coux et les defpens pour ce fais et fouflenus rendre done le porteur de ces lettres fcrroit creu par fon ferment fans autre prouve. En renoncant quant a ce a toultes les chofes et chefcun dicelles qui aidier et valoir leur pourront avenir contre la teneur de ces prefentes. Es quelles nous a la relacion du dit tabellion, En tefmoing de ce a nous mis le feel deflus dit fauf autri droit. Ce fut fait lan de grace mil trois cens et quatre vins la quart jour du mois davril. ainfi figne. P. Mregny. 26 Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu, C|> enfutent les teneurs Du franc fieu toe fo. 26. Mons feant en la parroche de Sainte Marie du Mont et de Brucheville appartenant a 3)et)an jfortefctt efcuier Seigno 1 du dit fieu. Et les noms des perfonnes qui les tiennent et les rentes que eulz en doivent. iSremterement* Hes btm Dan iRooert du Mouchel preftre, Tiennent par foy et par hommaige et par reffeantize le mefuage qui fut au dit Dan Robert aflavoir en hamel du moftier de Sainte Marie du Mont. Si comme il fe pourporte en lone et en ley contenant 1 joux le fieu de Saint Sauveur dun coftey et le chemin qui va du moftier de Sainte Marie du Mont au moulin de Tonnee dautre cofte bute dun but fur les terres que tient Michel le Berrier du dit jfOTttfCU et dautre but fur le tenement que tient Michel le Berrier de Mons' Guille aux Efpaulles. Et en doyvent les dis hers audit jfOCtcCctt, xij deniers j pain de manfe j cappon aides et 'reliefs fervice de prevofte et aides couftumieres quant eulz chaient. tient par foy et hommaige iij vergies de terre aflavoir en ij pieces, la pre- miere eft aflavoir joufce le quemin qui va du moftier de Sainte Marie du Mont au moulin de Tonnee bute dun but fur le gardin Dan Robert du Mouchel et dautre but fur la voie qui vient de la maifon Perres Ofber au moulin de Tonnee, la fegonde pieche eft illec aflavoir joufce la terre que Pierres Ofber a baillie audit Michel dun cofte et dautre cofte joufce la terre que Pierres Ofber tient du fieu Crefpin. Et en doit le dit Michel audit Seigneur xij deniers a la Pernelle j cappon a Noel reliefs xiij es fervice et prevofte et les trois aides couftumieres. fo. 26'' HtCtfl le dit Michel doit xl oeufs de rente foy et hommaige pour une piece de terre contenant demie acre aflavoir foubz le gardin qui fut Dan Robert du Mouchel laquelle terre Pierres Ofber luy bailla et eft de la vente es g'x de Hieville joufce 1 JtCttt le dit Michel doit deux pains de manfe deux capons a Noel et xij deniers a la Sainte Perronnelle pour une piece de terre contenante demie acre aflavoir a Tonnee joufce Thomas Penant et le Seigneur des coftes bute dun but fur le quemin qui pafle par devant le moulin de Tonnee et dautre but fur les Carrieres. 1 Blank in original. Char trier de Richart Fortefcu. 27 tient lui et fes parchonniers du dit fieu par foy et par hommaige et par refleantize une ainfneche appellee le fieu es Eoufs contenant deux acres de terre et en doit lui et fes perchonniers v. foulz ix deniers a la Sainte Perronelle et ij pains de manfe ij capons a Noel et fervice de curer le buy du moulin de Tonnee au defTus de la roue toultes foiz que meftier en fera de la roue jufques a la planque morain. Et fi doit fervice de prevofte reliefs xiij" et les iij. aides couftumieres. {dremterement. XLc hit ainfne en tient demie acre de terre en herbegaige joufce les hers Jehan Eouf et parte le douytdu moulin de Tonnee parmie bute fur le dit moulin et fur Thomas Periant des bus. JtCHl le dit Colin en tient demie acre que Jehan Eouf luy vendit joux le dit Colin et Richart le Vuidel des coftes bute fur Thomas Penant et fur Eftie le Berrier dun but et dautre but fur le quemin de Tonnee et en doit fon apportant des rentes et fervices defTus dis alans au Seigno r par fa main. Et en doit le dit Colin j quartier de fourment a la de guerpie Pierres Ofber a caufe de fon mariage fur trente perques de la di0 tient une evefche par foy et par hommaige et par refleantize lui et fes parchonniers contenant iiij acres de terre et en doit au dit Seigneur v folz ix deniers a la Pernelle ij pains de manfle ij capons iij guelines a Noel. Et doit reliefs xiij es . et fervice de prevofte et les trois aides couftumieres. I&remteremettt* ]^J_C tUt lj)£ip0 en tient en fa main une vergie en herbegaige joufce Jehan Aubert et Robert Bourdet des coftes bute fur le bas quemin et fur la caiche done len va au marefc des bus. 31 t"CHt le dit Hays en tient une vergie aflavoir a la croix au viel joufce Guille Dauneville efcuier et Henry le Lou a caufe de fa fame des coftes bute fur le quemin done len va aux Arbreaux. 31tXtf* le dit Hays tient xxx perques de terre joufce Guilleme Dauneville et le dit Hays des coftes bute fur Jouhan Aubert. 31^111 le dit Hays en tient demie vergie de terre joufce le dit Hays et Guille le Marquant des coftes bute fur Guille le Herubel et fur le tenement de la Frarie Saint Mor desbus. 3]tClH le dit Hays en tient vj vergies de terre aflavoir au marecq joufce la mafure au Miart et Perrin Ofber et Guille Deauneville des coftes bute fur le clos Peliquet et fur la hogue Guillette des bus. 31^^ ^ e tenement que fouloit tenir La Bourde contenant une vergie en herbegaige et en la terre de deflus joufce les hers Ricart Fiquet et le dit Perrin Hays des coftes bute fur le bas quemin et fur la caiche par one len va au mareft des bus et y prent Guille Dauneville iij boiffeaux de fourment de rente fur le dit tenement. f 0 . z 9 \ lies fjers Bicart jfiquet en tiennent xxx perques de terre joufce Robert Bourdet etle tenement a La Bourde des coftes bute fur le bas quemin et fur le dit tenement a La Bourde des bus. 3|tntt l es dis hers en tiennent demie vergie de terre joufce les dis hers et la caiche des coftes bute fur Jehan Aubert et fur Guille Bouchel des bus. lefjan Piquet en tient demie vergie de terre aflavoir a la croix au vil joufce Perrin Hays et le dit Piquet des coftes bute fur le dit Piquet des bus. Et en doit fon aportant des rentes et fervices deflus dis. Xefmn aubert en tient xxx perques de terre aflavoir a la croix au viel joufce Guille Dauneville efcuier bute fur la de guerpie Thomas Aubert. 31 tClTI le dit Jehan Aubert en tient xxv. perques joufce Perrin Hays et le fieu le Roy des coftes bute fur le bas quemin. 31 tClll le dit Jehan Aubert en tient xv perques jofce la caiche es Hays et Thomas Aubert des coftes bute fur Robert Bourdet. JLi_e0 jFreteS de la Frarie Saint Mor en tiennent demie vergie de terre joufce Aubert et Guilleme le Marquant des coftes bute fur le quemin done Ion va es Arbreaux et fur le dit Hays des bus. Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. 3i ©utllcme Daunetnlle efcuier tient du fieu Perrin Hays une vergie de terre joufce Jehan Aubert et le dit Hays des coftes bute fur le quemin done len va es Arbreaux. Et en doit au Signour fon apportant des rentes aides et fervices partes par la main de lainfne du dit fieu. fo. XZ ifJtirCIIlS (SuUtlBC tient du fieu de Mons par foy et par hommaige une pieche de terre contenante chinquante perques joufce la terre que Marion la Pailliere tient et douuaire des Riquies dun cofte et les hers Raul le Berruer dautre cofte et bute fur Raoul le Herubel dun but et dautre but fur la terre que Perrin le Paillier tient a cause de fa fame de Labbe de Cherebourg. Et en doit le dit Laureins deux boifleaux de fourment a la grant mefure de Sain&e Marie du Mont a Ctjtlll jfortcfctl Seignour du fieu de Mons et yprent Robert Beaugendre deux boifleaux daveiue daquificion. ZXXZZ (£>0t)CfFr0p tiennent le tenement que foulloit tenir Menart aflavoir a la dune de See Marie du Mont au deflbubz du moulin Guille Dauneville efcuier contenant viron trois vergies de terre joufce les hers Jouhan de la Dune devers folail levant dun cofte et Perret Bouteville dautre cofte bute dun but fur la Crique et dautre but fur le quemin de la dune qui va au Vey. Et en doit a Jdjilll jfortCfCIIC Seigneur du fieu de Mons iij foulz a la Pcrnele une gueline a Noel foy et hommaige reliefs xiij"* fervice de prevofte et les trois aides couflumieres quant ilz chaent. que foulloit tenir Rogier Godeffroy eft tcnu par foy et par hommaige aflavoir a la dune de Sancle Marie du Mont joufce les hers du dit Godefroy dun coftey et la voie juree qui va de la dune au Marie au Golobiere dautre cofte bute dun but fur le quemin de la dune et dautre but fur le clofet qui fut ala courte et eft ceft but plus lone devers la voie juree que fur le dit clofet. Et lb. doit au Signo 1 du fieu dc Mons iij s'. ij guelincs xx ocufs reliefs et xiij" fervices dc prevofte et les trois aides couftumieres quant culz chacnt. M'. que le moulin a eau de Tonnee et le vivier du moulin font du franc fieu de Mons. ^CtClTl que chine vergies de terre ou viron aflavoir audeflus dudit moulin font dudit fieu et font a prefent en la main du Signeur dudit fieu. Cllflllt la tencur comme Mons' Guille dc Briqueville chevalier Sire De Laune et dame Marie de Courcy fa fame baillerent le moulin de Tonnee ovecque les rentes et appcrtenanccs dicelli a Girot le Neir dit le Perche. Jul tOUS ceulx qui ces lettres verront ou orront Richart Coudran chevalier Balli de Pontoife garde du fceel et des regiftres des lettres des obligacons de la Viconte de Saint Sauveur Lendclin falut, 3' 2 Char trier de Rkhart Fortefcu. fachent tous que par devant Thomas le Godes clerc tabellion jure quant a ce furent prefens noble homme et puiflant Mons r Guille de Briqueville fire De Laune et dame Marie de Courcy fa fame a la quelle fame fon dit mari donne auclorite quant a ce et confeflent de leurs bonnes voulentes fans nul contraignement que eulx avoient bailli en fieu et par hommaige quitte ceffie et deleffie afin de herritaige a tous jours mes a Girot le Neir dit le Perche ung moulin a eau ovecque leftanque cauchie appertenant au dit moulin et les drois fervices digneteiz appertenants au dit moulin en moutains et autres chofles fans riens excepte et avecque ce fept vergies de terre le dit moulin et terres aflavoir en la parroifle de See Marie du Mont appelle Tonnee les dicles fept vergies de terre pres du dit moulin butent fur le chemin qui tent a ycelli. Et fut fait ceft fiefement par ung chappon blanc et une fonnete dargent pefante ung efcellin dargent de rente et ung chapel de rofes que le dit Girot le Perche es fes lettres ou aiant caufe de luy en paieront et rendront chefcun an danuel rente au terme de la fefte Saint Jehan Baptifte audit chevalier et dame a caufe delle et a leurs hers pour toutes rentes et pour tous fervices et acquis quiconque fans en paier aucune autre rente ne fervice a aucune autre perfonne. Et a faire juftice pour deffaut de paement des chofes deflus dit fur le dit moulin et terres fur chefcune partie pour le tout. Et par tant les dis chevalier et dame lui gardent de toute rentes fervices faifants et redevances quelles et de queille condicion que ce foit et quant a tout ce tenir et acomplir de point en point en leftat que deflus eft dit et devife les dicles parties fobligerent lun a lautre chefcun en fon fait eulx et leurs hers et tous leurs biens meubles et heritaiges prefens et avenir ou que eulx soient trouves a vendre et a defpendre par lainfche pour ce tenir et acomplir et pour les mifes et defpenfes pour ce fais rendre au porteur de ces lettres done il ferroit creu par fon ferment fans autre prouve et renun8 quant ace a toute decepcon et deffaute qui pourroient empefchir la teneur de ces lettres aus quelles nous en tefmoing de ce a la relacion du dit atourne avon mis le fceel deflus dit fauf autre droit. Ce fut fait lan de grace mil ccclx. et quinze le quinzieme jour Davril. GCp enfant la teneur dune autre lettre comme ledit Girot le Neir dit le Perche vendit a 31 tt) an jfOUtcCcil efcuier le dit moulin de Tonneie ovecque les terres et appertenances dicelluy moulin. tOUS CCUlr qui ces lettres verront ou orront Jehan Mabire preftre garde du jceel des obligacions de la Viconte de Saint Sauvour le Viconte falut. Sachens tous que par devant Perrin Courtel tabellion jure et eftabli en la di£te Viconte fut prefent a Saint Sauvour le Viconte Girot le Neir dit le Perche heraut de la paroifle de Saint Martin de Golleville fi comme il difoit lequel congnut et confefla de fon bon grey fans nul contraignement pour lui et pour fes hers avoir vendu quitte cefle et delefle afin de heritaige a tous jours mes ajdjan jfOTtCfCU efcuier et a fes hers toult le droit accion faifine pofleffion propriete juftice jurdiccion et feignourie que le dit vendeur a ou peult avoir demander et reclamer aux heritaiges contenus et dont mencion eft faic~te es lettres par les quelles ces prefentes font annexes fans y riens retenir ne excepter. Ainfi que ledit vendeur foblige par mos expres a acquirer les dis heritaiges contenus es didtes lettres annexes de tous les arrerages qui en pourroient eftre deubz avant le jourduy. Et fut fai£te cefte vente qui£te et delefle par le prix de vine et chine frans dor frans et qui£te a la main dudit vendeur et x foulz pour vim done le dit vendeur fe tint du toult pour bien paie par devant le dit tabellion pour quoy il promift et foblige pour lui et pour fes hers audit achateur et a Char trier de Richart Fortefcu. 33 fes hers la didte vente vers tous et contre tous garanter delivrer et deffendre ofter et mettre hors de tous empefchemens. En cas que par fon fait y avoit aucune empefchement avant lejourduy. Et fans ce que lui ne fes hers ne autre avant caufe de lui y puiflent des ormes en temps advenir chalenger ne demander ne clamer aucun droit ne Seignorie en aucune maniere par quiconque caufe voie ou maniere que ce foit ou puifle eftre. Et quant ad ce et a toultes les chofles deflus dicles et a chefcune dicelles tenir et enteignir de point en point fans james aler encontre le dit vendeur obliga foy et fes hers et tous lours biens meubles et heritaiges prefens et advenir ou et fur queille jurisdiccion que ilz foient trouves a eftre prins vendus et defpendus toult de plain doffice de juftice fans proces ne errement de plet pour ce enteignir et pour rendre audit achateur et a fes hers tous les coux mifes interes et defpens qui pour deflus denteignir les chofles de fur diftes feroient fais et fouftenus done le porteur de ces lettres feroit creu par fon ferment fans autre prove fete. Et renoncha fur ce le dit vendeur per fon ferment a toutes excepcions fuites et defTenfles par quoy len pourroit venir contre la teneur et obligacion de ces lettres. (o. 32. Et par efpecial au droit difant general renonciacion non valer. En tefmoing de ce ces lettres font fceelles du fceel deflus dit a la relacion du dit tabellion fauf autre droit. Ce fut fait lan de grace mil ccc fexante et feze le yj e jour du moys de Mars. Ees I£)er0 3feban De T5enfetoille de Hubertviiie dofrent a Rfe&art ifortcfeu a caufe de Guillete du Hommet fa mere' onze livres tournois de rente a jour Saint Michel foy et hommaige pour une france vavaflburie tenue franchement et honnourablement o court et ufaige aflavoir en la parroifle de Hubertviiie et fe eftent en la parroifle de Saint Germain de Tournebuc fi comme il peult apperoir plus plainement en ceft prefent Chartrier et le droit de leur teneur done mencion eft faicte en . . . {Hons* Jeban tw hommet che valier Seigneur de la Varenguiere doit audit JfuTtcfCU fept livres tournois au jour S'. Michel de demourant de Grignoir fomme a caufe du mariage de Guillete du Hommet fuer dudit chevalier et fame • du dit JfOTtcfCU comme plus a plain peult apperoir par lettres Roiaulx fur ce faites. (There are three blank pages at this place in the original MS., before fo. 33.) 1 Originally fame; altered to mere by a later hand. » 8k, 5 34 Chartrier de Rkhart Fortefcu. €$ enfutent les renews tiu franc fieu tie Franquetot feant es paroifle de Quetreville et de Coignies en Baupteiz appartenant a 1 . . |f ortefCU efcuier Seigno r du dit fieu et les noms des perfonnes qui les tiennent et les rentes quilz on doivent. i&retmerement lefmn anquetil tient lui et fes parchonniers dudit fieu par foy et par hommaige une evefche refleante appellee levefche Anquetil contenant xviij acres de terre. Et en doivent lui et fes par- chonniers au terme de la Saint Michel viij quartiers de fourment x quartiers davene le tout mefure du Plefleiz quatre foulz a la Saint Clement (?) quatre deniers quatre guelines a Noel quarante oeufs a Pafques. Service de fains faire carier fur le fieu du Seigneur. Service de moulin de prevofte et les moutes vertes et fecques deux journees de carue et deux dercheure aient ou non, lune a tremeis et lautre a yvenaige fur le dit fieu les quils airont quant il fen yront iiij deniers pour livrefon et chefcune hercheure deux deniers. Et ainfi doivent les trois aides couftumieres en Normendie quant elles chaient. Et eft ainfi dit que chefcun des tenans et perchonniers paiera fon aportant des rentes et des fervices deflus dis par la main du dit efney. !Qremiercment ie dit Anquetil efney tient de la di6le evefche demie acre de terre et demie vergie receante aflavoir a Franquetot joux les hers Colin Anquetil des coftes bute dun but a la rue et de fo. 33 b . lautre fur le bieu du molinel. 31 t0lTl demie acre de terre foubz le buy du molinel joux les hers Anquetil bute fur les preys de Franquetot. 31^^ une ver gi e et demie aflavoir en marefce de Franquetot joux les hers Phot Jouhan bute fur le dit marefc de Franquetot. Jtetlt vergie et demie de terre aflavoir a la fofle joux les hers Barbey bute a la rue de la di£te foffe. Et en doibt des rentes et des fervices deflus dis en la maniere que deflus eft dit et devifey. 3Zc0 fjers Colin anquetil tient dicelle evefche en leurs menages trois vergies de terre et demie aflavoir joux le dit efney bute fur la rue de Franquetot. 31 tent es croutelles vergie et demie et x perques joux le dit efney bute fur le bieu du dit moulinel. es di£les croutelles une vergie de terre joux 1 Sic. Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. 35 les hers Guille le Franchoiz bute fur le dit bieu du dit moulinel. 3ittm es di&es croutelles xij perques joux le dit efney bute fur le dit bieu du dit molinel. 31 t0Mt es croutelles vj perques joux le dit efney bute fur le dit bieu. 3ittnt foubz le dit bieu une vergie de terre joux le dit bieu dudit molinel bute fur les Caperons. 31^*11 f°ubz le dit bieu demie vergie de terre et quatre perques joux Guilleme le Fran- chois but fur les hers Caperon. 31^^ vergie et demie fur le prey joux les hers Thomas le Prevoft bute fur Thomas la Paftoere. 31 tCITI une vergie et xlj perque foubz la maire Saiyonnier joux les hers Thomas Lefoc bute fur Guillem Aubric. 3^^l fur les maires xxv perques joux Guillem Bonchamp bute fur les hers Milet Caperon. 3|t?ttt es v ' er aveneuz une vergie et x perques joux les hers Jehan la Paftore bute fur Ricart le Bourguez. 3!ttttl a la croix Barbey vergie et demie joux les hers Jehan Bonchamp bute fur le quemin du Hommet. 3 tCIll a la hogue demie vergie joux Jehan Anquetil bute fur les hers a Leffrey. en trans une vergie et xvj perques joux les dis hers bute fur les hers a Leffrey. Et en doivent les dis hers leurs aportant des rentes et des fervices deffus dis en la maniere que deffus eft dit et devifey. vint perques de terre en fon mefuage joux le dit efney bute fur la rue de fo. 34. Franquetot. 3!^^ es croutelles trent et deux perques joux le dit efney bute fur le d't bieu du molinel. 3|tCin foubz le bieu douze perques joux les hers Colin Anquetil bute fur les hers Milet Caperon. 31tClll trente perques a Gallart joux les hers Denis Caperon bute fur le chemin du Homme. 31^^11 a la hogue une vergie et xv perques joux les hers Colin Anquetil bute fur les hers a Left'rey. 3^'^ trente et trois perques de terre joux les hers Bonchamp bute fur le quemin du Homme. Et doit fa part des fervices et rentes joux ce que deffus eft devifey. amicn ^arefquier dc mie acre v perques de terre a Lonmel joux les hers Guille Doudcman bute fur le quemin de Lommel de Franquetot. 3ltt'N ^ eze perques as cortes terres joux Rogier Affeline bute fur 1 . . . et en doit fa part des fervices et rentes comme deffus. trente et deux perques as cortes joux Thomas le Sot bute fur les hers Jehan le Bourges. Et doit des rentes et fervices comme deffus eft dit. Ecs berg 3lcfran <£rufic es Carrieres trente et trois perques de terre joux les hers Jehan Bon- champ bute fur les hers Philipe Guifle. JtCllt dix et huit perques au mareft joux les hers Bon- f 0 . 3 4 b . champ bute fur le dit mareft. ^tClXX vergie et demie et iiij perques joux les hers Seveftre Boniver bute fur Denis Caperon. Et doivent des rentes comme deffus. 1 Blank in original. 36 Chartrter de Richart Fortefcu. Hicart tie 0une dit Maugre vergie et demie de terre et iiij perques es Teulles joux Jehan Guifle bute fur Olivier Caperon. Et doit des rentes et fervices comme deflus. Baoul le ^ounier a la maire Sauxmire' une vergie de terre joux* les hers Jehan Guifle bute fur le quemin de Franquetot. 3It£Ht vmt et chine perques en die joux Alixandre Caperon bute fur les hers Aubric. Et doit des rentes et fervices comme delTus. JZeS fretS CfrOmaS le PteUOll une vergie et xviij perques fur le mareft joux les hers Perret le Soc bute fur les hers Guillem le Quetreville. 31^*^ trente perques a la campaigne joux les hers Johan Guifle bute fur les hers au Faucenes. 3ItClTt trente et deux perques fur le prey joux le hers Colin Anquetil bute fur les pres de Franquetot. 31txm fix perques foubz le bieu joux les hers Colin Anquetil bute fur les pres. Et en doivent des rentes et fervices femblables. fo. 35. 'GJomas le 3|ouf une vergie et quinze perques fur le marefc joufce Jehan Guifle et les hers Phot Jouhan des coftes bute fur ledit marefc. Et en doit des rentes et fervices comme deflus. 0*uilleme Couun vergie et demye de terre au Vurguel joux la riviere du Vallec bute fur la didte riviere. Et en doit fa part des rentes et fervices comme deflus. une vergie aflavoir en trans de Franquetot joux Denis Caperon bute fur le dit Denis. 31t£M une vergie en dit trans joux Jehan le Frances bute fur le quemin du Homme. Et en doit fa part des rentes et fervices comme deflus. iZa lie (^tietpie Phot' Johan tient vergie et demie de terre aflavoir a la fofle joux Colin Challes bute fur les hers Perrin Orenge. Et en doit fa part des rentes et fervices. jfluranljre Caperon vint et chine perques de terre a la maire Sauxmuer joux les hers Guilleme le Monnier bute fur Guilleme Aubin. ^tClTl v ' nt et cm nc perques a la didte riviere joux Jehan f°- 3 5 b - Anquetil bute fur la didte riviere. Et en doit fa part des rentes et fervices, etc. ®etJeftre 'BarOOp trente perques de terre fur le prey joux Jehan le Prevoft et le dit Seveftre des Char trier de Richart Fortefcu. 37 codes bute fur le dit Seveftre. 31 demie vergie a la forte Pipet joux le dit efney bute fur Olivier Guifle. Et en doit femblable, etc. une vergie as fourques joux Guille le Franceis bute fur le quemin du Homme. 3]t£m a la croix Barbey vergie et demie joux Thomas Anquetil bute fur le quemin du Homme et en doit fix boifleaux de fourment as houz Colin Bloville. 31 t0m une vergie au clos Goderel joux Seveftre Barbey bute fur Jehan Anurey. Et en doit trois boifleaux de fourment aux hers Furon. ^ ITCITI une vergie en dit trans joux Denis Caperon bute fur Perres Guille. 31 tCIrt fur les marC de Pontamin vint et chine perques joux Jehan Anquetil bute fur les hers Colin Caperon. Et en doit fa part des fervices et rentes deflus nommees, etc. vergie et demie et chine perques es porte Caperon joux les hers Guille Caperon bute fur les hers Olivier Caperon. 3itCin une vergie au clos Goderel joux Guillem Boucher bute fur Colin Challes. Et en doit fa part des rentes et fervices, etc. Ha De Guerpie Robert Da mien vint et chine perques en tortes terres joux les hers Colin Marefquier bute fur Dan Jehan le Marefchal. 3^™ vmt et cm nc perques au grant fofle joux la dicle de Guerpie bute fur les hers au Fontenes. Et en doit fa part des rentes et fervices, etc. Ues fjers 3lefjan Caperon xxv. perques de terre aftavoir a la Lee riviere joux Jehan Anquetil bute fur le marefc de Franquetot. Et en doit fa part des rentes et fervices femblable, etc. Ouillaume aaeime une vergie au vallec joux Guille Coufin bute furle dit Eoufe. Et en doit fa part des rentes et fervices, etc. lefjan Herbert trente et trois perques fur la Pierre joux Jehan Anquetil bute fur Guille Afleline. 31tCUt dix et fept perques es crotelles joux les hcrcs Jehan le Priour bute fur Bonuche. Et en doit fa part des rentes et fervices, etc. 1 1 eg F)er0 STfjOmaS le ^OC trente et fix perques es courtes terres joux la de Guerpie Phelippe Jouhan bute fur Jehan Afleline. Et en doit fa part des rentes et fervices, etc. 38 Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu, fo. 36 b . OfalllfttimC IRcllllbtJUt une vergie et trois perques de terre au Vallec joux Guille Coufin a caufe de fa fame bute fur le dit Coufin. Et en doit fa part femblable, etc. marete feze perques joux Jehan Anquetil bute fur les hers Colin Anquetil. Et en doivent leur aportant, etc. Xofrannc anquetil feze perques a la marete joux les hers Thomas le Marefchal bute fur les hers Colin Anquetil. 3|t£lll douze perques et demie de terre fur la Pierre joux les hers Jehan Hebert bute fur les hers Jehan Courlefnaux et en doit fa part des rentes, etc. fouloit tenir douze perques de terre fur la Pierre joux Jehan Hebert bute fur les hers Coulefnaux. Et en doit fa part des rentes et fervices, etc. Ecs frets pfjot ^trifle tiennent demie vergie de terre a la campaigne joux les dis hers bute fur les hers es Fontenes. 3^^^ une ver gi e et trente et chine perques a la fofle joux Jehan Boucher bute fur Seveftre Barbey. Et en doivent leur part des rentes, etc. fo. 37. JleS fjerS PerUn i^efJCrt trente et trois perques au Vallec joux Guille Coufin bute fur le marefc de Franquetot. 3|t£tn trente et trois perques que foulloit tenir Thomas Barbey a caufe de fa fame a la Lee riviere joux les hers Dan Ric'ler bute fur la quemine de Franquetot. Et en doivent leur part des rentes et fervices, etc. emie acre de terre au quefne de Franquetot joux Colin Challes et Jehan le Franches bute fur le quemin du Homme. 3lttttt une vergie aflavoir au cas de Franquetot joux le quemin tendant du cas a Quetreville bute fur Jehan Anquetil a caufe de fa fame. 31^^ une ver gi e et trente et trois perques aflavoir au cas de Franquetot joux le dit Jehan bute fur le venid a la fille Martin, fflttnt demie vergie fur la Pierre de Franquetot joux le dit Jouhan et Thomas Anquetil des coftes bute fur Guilleme Afleline. Et en doit fa part des rentes et des fervices en la maniere que deflus eft dit et devifey, etc. cefte efveche par fin de teneur par lefney dicelle aux pies du dit Seigneur tenus XX a Franquetot par Jehan Barbey fenefchal du dit Seigneur lan iitj en prefence de moy Jehan Fouques preftre tabellion du fiege de Baupte qui en tefmoing de ce ay mis cy mon figne manuel. Char trier de Richart Fortefcu. 39 tient du dit Seigneur de Franquetot lui et fes perchonniers en fleu et par hommaige fo. une efneche refleante apelle levefche du fieu Rambaut et contenant dix et huit acres de terre. Et en doit ledit Afleline es fes dis parchonniers x. et huit foulz a la Saint Albin, iiij capons a Noel o leurz pains trente oeufs a Pafques et fervice de fain faire et vien et tafler en feuil fur les dis fieux. Et les aides acouftumes en Normendie quant elles chaent. Et doit Ricart le Bourgues paier et faire paier la moite des rentes et fervices. le dit Jehan Afleline doit audit Seigneur vj boifleaux de fourment meflure de Franquetot a juftice ung herbegaige contenant xxx perques de terre joux les heres Michel Alaire dun cofle et dautre a la ruele Rambaut bute a la rue de Franquetot, et fur le dit fieu des bus. |&remterement, Xi-C Dit 3f0f)fUl 3S5CUllC efney tient de la di£te evefche douze vergies de terre en une pieche joulx les hers Michel Alaire et la ruele Rambaut des coftes bute au douyt de lesclufete. Et en doit fon aportant des rentes et fervices deflus dis audit Signo r et eft refleant. Et a Jehan de Cantillie efcuier quinze foulz a la Saint Michel et fervice de prevofte. JtCUl une pieche de terre contenant trois vergies aflavoir al efclufete joux Ricart le Bourgues et Thomas Anquetil des coftes bute fur la dicte efclufete. Et en doit fa part des rentes et fervices, etc. 3^'N trente perques de terre en herbegaige joux les hers Michel Alaire dun cofte et la ruelle Rambaut dautre bute a la rue de Franquetot dun but et fur ledit fieu Rambaut dautre. Et en doit vj boifleaux de fourment meflure dc Franquetot et fa part des rentes et fervices, etc. ]Hc()&n 3nQUCtll une pieche de terre contenant viron une vergie aflavoir a la croix Barbey joux fo. Alixandre Caperon et Thomas Anquetil des coftes bute fur le quemin du Homme. TftCIll une vergie a la hougue joux le dit Anquetil et les hers a la fille Martin des Coftes et bute fur le venid au Bour- gues. 3i t"Ctll vergie et demie ou viron aflavoir au cas joux les hers Guille Afleline et le dit Anquetil des coftes bute fur les dit hers a la fille Martin. 31 tClll en icelluy trans demie vergie ou viron joux le dit Anquetil et ledit venid des coftes bute fur le venid au Bourguez. 3t c,, l unc vcr g' e ct demie ou viron aflavoir au Corbellon joux Jaquet Hais et fa fame et le dit Anquetil des coftes bute fur les hers au Bourgues. 31 t"Ctll demie vergie fur les pres de Franquetot joux Guille Afleline et le dit Anquetil des coftes bute fur les dis pres. 31 tClll demie vergie aflavoir au maresce joux les hers Guille et le dit Anquetil des coftes bute fur ledit marefc. JtCIH demie vergie ala Lee riviere joux Barbey dun coftey bute fur la di£le riviere. ^tCOT demie vergie a la hougue joux Thomas Anquetil ct la dc gerpie Jehan le Bourges des coftes bute fur le vened au Bourguez. Et en doit ledit Anquetil trois deniers pour chefcune vergie et fa part de iiij pains iiij capons et fa part des fervices de fain dc moulin ct des rentes, etc. Xi-fl t)£ lHll0 JRaiUtiaUt demie vergie aux hefetes joux Guillem le Bourgues bute au quemin du Homme. Et doit fon aportant. XEeS J)0t0 COlin DU Mantel une vergie en la croutele Rannbaut bute fur Guilleme Afceline. Et doit fon aportant. ©erres le a^arefcfral du cas trente perques o ponchel joux les hers Thomas Afleline bute fur le clos Jehan Afleline. Ouillot jaooert a caufe de fa fame quinze perques o ponchel joux Guille le Bourgues bute au douyt du molinel. Et doit fon aportant, etc. Jia De <£)UeCpie Jehan le Bourgues vint et fept perques de terre o cas joux Jehan Anquetil bute fur Guilleme le Bourguez et doit fon aportant, etc. Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. 43 'G&omas anquetil une vergie o cas de Franquetot joux les hers Guillem Rannbaut bute fur Jehan Anquetil. 31 tClTl trente perques a la Pierre de Franquetot joux Anquetil bute fur les hers au prevoft. 3!t£Ht une ver g' e a la campaigne joux le Seignour de Carantilly bute fur Perrin la Poftore. Denis Caperon une vergie et dix perques aflavoir en trans apelle le Camp joux Ricart Naguet des fo. coftes bute au grant chemin dun but et dautre fur le dit 1 . . . . Et en doit fon aportant du fieu et a Jehan Regnaut j boiflel de fourment, etc. a la Mar'aufa' une vergie joux Jehan Afleline bute au douyt du molinel. Et en doit fon aportant des rentes et fervices, etc. Baillie cefte efvefche par fin de teneur par lefney dicelle aux pies du dit Seigneur tenus a X X Franquetot par Jehan Barbey fenefchal dudit Seigneur lan mil ccc.iiij le xx r jourde Novembre. En prefence de moy Jehan Fouque preftre tabellion du fiege de Baupte qui en tefmoing de ce ay mis cy mon figne manuel. %)ierre0 ®Ulfle Tient du dit Seigneur de Franquetot lui et fes perchonniers et fieu et par hommaige une efveche refleante contenant trente acres de terre. Et en doivent vint foulz de rente et fervice de fain et de molin et de prevofte et moutes et les trois aides acoullumcs en Normendie la quelle rente eft a paier a trois termes ceft aflavoir trois foulz a la Saint Michel en mout dc gaiges. Et chine fo. foulz a la fefte Saint Clement et douze foulz a la fefte Saint Aubin fur les quelz vint foulz leglife Nre Dame Dappeville prent chine foulz alans a la lampe du don Mons' Michel de Fonteney chevalier. i&remterement. He nit (fcuifle Tient dicelle efveche une vergie de terre a la mairc Sauxonniere joux Jehan Guide bute fur Guillem Macti. 31 t"Clll une vergie a la croute au Souf joux Alixandre Caperon bute fur le marefc de Franquetot. 3|tt0! une ver g' e a Mauvoifin joux Jehan Guide bute fur le dit marefc. jf tCHI demie vergie a la croute joux Alixandre Caperon bute fur la voie tendant en dit marefc. JtClit une vergie au marefc joux Denis Caperon bute fur les hers la Paftore. ^tClll une vergie a Mauvoifin joux les hers Ricart Pepin bute fur le dit marefc. 31 fCtlt demie vergie au prey joux Thomas le Jolif bute fur Jehan Anquetil. Et en doit pour chefcune vergie deux deniers et fervice de fain et de moulin et de prevofte et moutes et les aides couftumieres. 1 Blank in original 44 Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. Tient du dit fieu une vergie de terre aflavoir a la maire Sauxonniere joux Pierres Guifle dun cofte bute fur Guillem Macft. 3jtCnt deux vergiez en la croute joux le dit efney bute fur le douyt courant au moulin. 31 une vergie aflavoir au Mauvoifin joux Joufi Anquetil bute fur le marefc de Franquetot. JtCtTl une ve rg' e au maires joux les hers Guillem Caperon bute fur Olivier Guifle. 31 tCtTt une vergie a la Valee joux Olivier Guifle bute fur le dit marefc. 31 ttttt une vergie fur le marefcq de Franquetot joux ledit efney, bute fur le dit marefq. Et en doit pour chefcune vergie deux deniers et fervice de fain et de moulin et de prevofte et moutes et les aides couftumiers, etc. fo. 44. une vergie en fon mefuage joux Jehan Guifle bute fur le douyt courant au molinel. 31t£M demie acre en la marete joux Denis Caperon bute fur Guilleme Aubric. 31^'tt une vergie a la Valee joux Perrin le Marefchal bute fur le marefc de Franquetot. Et en doit pour chefcune vergie deux deniers et les fervices comme deflus eft dit. une vergie en fon mefuage joux les hers Jehan la Paftoire bute fur le douyt courant au molinel. 3|t£Ht une vergie aus mares joux les hers Guille Caperon bute fur Jehan Guifle. lit une vergie a la Valee joux Jehan Guifle bute fur le marefc de Franquetot. Et en doit deux deniers pour chefcune vergie et les fervices come deflus eft dit. etrin la Paffoere tient du dit fieu quatre vergies et le quart de demie vergie aflavoir en trois pieces. La premiere a la croute de Pontannin joux Ricart le QuetreviJlez bute fur la rue de Pontannin, la fegonde en la di£te croute joux Raoul le Monnier but fur la di£te rue, la tierche eft es mares joux Guille Lefuour bute fur la de gerpie Thomas le Prevoft. Et en doit xij deniers a Ricart le 1 3|ttm trente perques a la croute au Souf que tient Denis Caperon joux Seveftre Barbey bute fur Symon Caperon. Et en doit pour chefcune vergie deux deniers et les fervices comme deflus eft dit. 31 tCttl Olivier Guifle en tient dix perques aflavoir a la croute au Souf joux Alixandre Caperon bute fur Symon Caperon. Et en doit pour les dix perques maille et les fervices comme deflus eft dit. eux vergies et vint et chine perques en trois pieces, la premiere joux la terre Saint Pierre bute fur la de guerpie Thomas le Prevoft. Et en doit a la Saint Pierre a caufe des xxv. perques fon aportant de vj boiffeaux de fourment. La feconde a la terre Saint Pierre joux la terre Saint Pierre bute fur Thomas le Queminant. La tierche es Noez Caperon joux le dit Queminant bute fur Guillem le Miere. Et en doit iiij b de fourment aux hers joux Bloville. Et pour chefcune vergie ij deniers alans audit Seigneur pafle par la main dudit efney et les fervices comme deflus eft dit. 1 Blank in original. Char trier de Richart Fortefcu. 45 Icfjan IBeratt tient du die fieu une vergie a la Bruiere et le quart de une vergie joux Raoul Lemonnier bute fur le chemin du Homme. Et en doit ij deniers obole alans a la main dudit Signour par le dit efney et les fervices comme defTus eft dit et ij boifleaux de fourment a Jehan la Rofe, etc. X>erres le 8@arefcbal vint et chinq perques a la Bruiere joux le chemin du Homme bute fur Guillem le Suour. Et en doit j denier et la moitie de une obole et les fervices comme defTus eft dit. Item ©Iftnet 0C trente perques en fon mefuage joux Jehan le Prevoft bute fur la rue de la foffe. Et en doit trois mailles audit efcuier par main defney et les fervices aides et moutes deffus dis. to. 46. jSfetoefire IBatbep une vergie en fon mefuage joux Guillem Coufin bute fur les hers Phe' Jouhan. Eten doit deux deniers audit Seignour et les fervices aides et moutes deffus dis. QTutllaume le jFepure une vergie et demie en fon mefuage joux le quemin tendant de Beufeville a la haie Dupuis bute fur la rue tendant a la quemune. Et en doit iiij b de fourment a Guillem le Chartrier de Rkhart Fortefcu. 49 Miere et vijd. 3!tCm demie acre a la campaigne joux Damien Marefquier bute fur le dit quemin et en doit vij boifleaux de fourment a Ricart Coefnon. 31 t^m une vergie en dit trans joux Olivier Guifle bute fur Guillem Coufin. 31 tem trente perques en mefuage es Mieres joux Guillem Coufin bute audit quemin. 31^^ une ver gi e a Longbouel que tient Guillem Boncamp joux Jehan le Frances bute fur Jehan Anquetil. Et en doit pour chefcune vergie deux deniers et les fervices aides et moutes defTus dis. trois vergies a Coignies en herbegaige joux Perrin la Poftore bute fur le chemin tendant a Carenten. 31 tCtll une vergie au ' de trois ans la quille eft aux heres Guille Lemonier joux la piece de terre deflus di£le et le dit Apoftore des coftes bute fur la quemine de Pontannin. Et en doit pour chefcune vergie deux deniers audit Seigneur par main defney et les fer- vices aides et moutes deflus dis. ]I[t£rn les heres Jehan la Poftore une vergie en herbegaige joux la rue des preys bute fur les heres Jehan Guifle. 3fClll demie vergie en la croute joux Olivier Guifle des coftes bute au chemin. 3i tent une vergie a Pontannin joux Guillem Robert bute fur Guillem Mathieu. 'Jttll 1 trente perques en marefcq joux la de guerpie Philipe Jehan bute fur Seveftre Barbey. 3^f HI une vergie es mares joux le dit Seveftre bute fur les heres Jehan Guifle. Et en doivent pour chefcune vergie deux deniers et les fervices aides et moutes deflus dis. Denis Capcron une vergie es Vallcz joux Seveftre Barbey bute fur Alixandrc Caperon. Et en doit deux deniers audit Seigneur et les fervices aides et moutes defTus dis. Item Colin Cfjallcs une vergie de prey joux Thomas Anquetil bute fur Perrin le Marefcal Et en doit audit Seigneur par main defney les fervices aides et moutes deflus dis. ItClTI les heres a la Poftoire une vergie fur le prey joux Seveftre Barbey bute fur le dit Barbey. Et en doivent ij d' audit Seigneur par main defney et les fervices aides et moutes deflus dis. Ttcm Guillem Coufin une vergie aux croutes de Pontannin joux le chemin dc Beufeville bute fur Guillem Robert. 31tCIH une vergie illec joux Guille le Fevvre bute fur le dit chemin. Et en doit deux deniers pour chefcune vergie et les fervices aides et moutes deflus dis. 1 Blank in original. 7 5° Char trier de Richart Fortefcu. une vergie et demie en fon mefuage joux Guillem Coufin bute fur les heres Phillipe Jehan. 31 tCtTX a Gaillart les deux pars de demie acre de terre joux Perrin le Marefcal bute fo. 47. fur le quemin du Homme. 31 tCITT es Preaux demie vergie joux Jehan le Prevoft bute fur le dit Jehan. 3jttttt une vergie es maires joux les heres Jehan Bertin bute fur les heres Guilleme Caperon. 3!tttTl une vergie a la Vallee joux Alixandre Caperon bute fur le dit Alixandre. ^l^fTl a la croute Ofouf quatre vergies joux le dit Alixandre bute fur Sanfon Caperon. 3i tCllt auprey vergie et demie joux Thomas le Jolif bute fur Perrin le Marefcal. 31 tClTl a la Haelle trente perques joux Olivier Guifle bute fur Alixandre Caperon. 31 tCttt fur le prey une vergie joux le dit Barbey bute fur le dit Seveftre. 31tCttt une vergie au prey joux Denis Caperon bute fur Thomas le Jolis et en doit deux deniers pour chefcune vergie et les fervices aides et moutes deffus dis. Item Cfromas le CluetremUes vergie et demie au Pontannin joux Guillem le Suour bute fur la voie tendante a Baupte. Et en doit iij d. et les fervices aides et moutes deflus dis. Item (SuiUe le %uour une vergie a Pontannin joux Guillem Coufin bute fur Olivier Guifle. 3|ttnt une vergie au camp Thomas joux les heres Philippe Jehan bute fur le cheminant. Et en doit iiij d' et les fervices aides et moutes deflus dis. ICtem les heres Philippe Jehan une vergie au marefcq de Franquetot joux Jehan Guifle bute fur le dit marefcq et en doit ij d. et les fervices femblables. fo. 47 b . *Cf fromas le Cfjemmaunt une vergie au camp Thomas joux Guille le Suour bute fur Guille Lemiere. Et en doit ij d. et les fervices femblables. Ecs teres iRtcart Pepin une vergie et v perques fur le marefc de Franquetot joux Pierre Guifle bute fur le dit marefc. Et en doivent ij d. et poitevine alans audit Seigneur et les fervices aides et moutes deffus dis. lenefche cy devant devifee par fin de teneur par lefne dicelle aux pies dudit Seig- XX nour tenus a Franquetot par Jehan Barbe fenefchal dudit Seigneur lan mil ccc.iiij en prefence de moy Jehan Fouques preftre tabellion du fiege de Baupte qui pour tefmoing de ce ay mis cy mon figne manuel. Char trier de Richart Fortefcu. 51 jEIltranore Caperon Tient dudit Seigneur de Franquetot lui et fes perchonniers en fieu et par homme une efneche refleantife appelle le fieu Caperon contenant trente acres de terre et en doivent lui es fes parchonniers audit Seigneur vint et chine foulz tournois a la fefte Saint Albin ij journees de carue et deux de hercheure cell aflavoir une a tremoiz et lautre a yvenaige, et le quart des fains menans fur mefmes les fieux, fervice de prevofte et lestrois aides acouftumieres de Normendie. Jttlll doivent au trefor de leglife Dappeville chine foulz tournois a la fefte Saint Clement du don Mons. Michel des f°- 4 8 - Fontaines jadis Seigneur de Pretot fur la defcharge de trente foulz que fouloit dever le dit fieu. i&remterement. He Dit Caperon ainfnep Tient de la di£le efneche trois vergies de terre a Franquetot fon herbegaige aflis dedens joux les heres Jehan Caperon et le dit Alixandre des coftes bute fur Thomas le Jolif et fur le dit Alixandre des bus. Tfltttlt U ne vergie de terre en fa croute joux Olivier Guifle et le dit Alixandre des coftes bute fur Jehan Guifle. tCttl une vergie illec joux Denis Caperon des coftes et bute fur le quemin tendant au marefcq de Franquetot. "jf tnil il tient une vergie en trans de la mairete joux Simon Caperon et les heres Grant Guillem des coftes bute fur le quemin tendant au marefc de Franquetot. ^tfttl une ver g' e en trans de la helle joux les heres Jehan Caperon et Thomas Anquetil des coftes bute fur Guillem. JtCflt unc vcr g' e en trans du prey Nre Dame joux les hers Michel Alaire et les heres Colin Caperon des coftes bute fur la riviere du marefc. 3|tnil demie vergie de prey es pres de Franquetot joux Denis Caperon et le dit ]f cljiUl jfOftcfCU efcuier des coftes bute fur Simon Caperon. 3! tCHI une vergie et demie de prey illec joux Jehan le Prevoft ct Michel du Hamel des coftes bute fur Jehan Anquetil. iftClll demie vergie aftife es fofles joux Simon Caperon et Thomas le Jolis des coftes bute fur le quemin tendant au marefc de Franquetot. 3|tCm une vergie en trans de la maire Ofouf joux Guillem Robert a caufe de fa fame bute fur Denis Fortin. 2ftCOT une vergie en trans de la Vallee joux Simon Caperon et les hers Colin Caperon des coftes bute fur Simon Caperon. JtCttl une vergie en dit trans joux les heres Jehan Caperon et le quemin tendant au marefc de Franquetot des coftes bute fur Guillem Mathieu. 3^tCIll demie vergie en dit trans joux Guillem Robert a caufe de fa fame ct les heres Colin Caperon des coftes bute fur la riviere du marefc de Franquetot. ^itf'N trente perques en trans de lefpinois hezart joux Denis Caperon et Guillem Colete des coftes bute fur le quemin tendant a Bauptc au molin Tombe. JfCIll une vergie en trans du camp Thomas joux Guillem le Suour et Jehcnct le Pigaut des coftes bute fur Guillem Lemiere. ^itflH trente perques au quefne de f ranquetot joux Guillem Adeline ct Damien f°- 48\ Marefquier des coftes et bute fur le quemin du Homme. Et en doit le dit Alixandre a caufe dune vergie de terre comprife en dit fieu joux fon mefuage a Denis Defeyne vj. b. de fourment mefure de Franquetot. 3!fn 11 doit audit Denis ij boifleaux a fourment a la dicle mefure le tout a la fefte Saint Michel en Mont de Gargane a caufe dune butiere de terre par devers le vinier joux Simon Caperon. le §uout vint et une vergie fon herbegaige aflis dedens ainfi comme il fe pourporte en 52 Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. lone et en ley aflis au Pontannin joux Jehan Colete dun cofte et les heres Guille le Francez et Meftre Jehan Bloville et Perrin la Poftore dautre bute fur la rue de Pontannin et fur la maire qui en 1 des bus. Et en doit audit Seigneur trois deniers tournois pour chefcune vergie palTant par la main de lefney a la fefte Saint Albin. 3|tCttl doit fon aportant des fervices faifances et redevances appartenants au dit fieu foit en prevofte fervice de fain ou autre, et les trois aides acouftumes en Normendie. 3]tettt il en doit a Robert Taillefer a caufe de fa fame xxij boifleaux de fourment mefure de Coignies. A Ricart la Rouze a caufe de fa fame v. boifleaux de fourment a la dicte meflure. 31 tCtlt au trefor de leglife Saint Pierre de Coignies i b et demie de fourment a la di£te meflure. 31^^ le dit Jehan tient du dit fieu une vergie au Pontannin joux Meftre Jehan Bloville bute fur le quemin tendant de Baupte au molin de Tombe, Et en doit trois d. audit Seigneur pour chefcune vergie a la fefte deffus didte per la main de lefney et fon aportant des fervices deffus dis et les trois aides deffus dis. 3|t£tU il en doit a Jehan Courtel a caufe de fa fame i reis daveine meflure de la Haie Dupuis. 31^^ le dit Jouhan tient deux vergies de terre en trans de la Danoudire joux Jehan Colete et le dit Jouhan des coftes et bute fur le quemin tendant du molin de Tombe a Baupte. Et en doit audit Seigneur trois deniers pour chefcune vergie paflante la main dudit efney et fon portant des fervices du dit fieu et les aides deflus dis es termes acouftumieres. deux vergies de terre en trans de la Danoudire joux Jehan le Frances et Jouhan le Suour des coftes bute fur la rue de Pontannin. Et en doit audit Seigneur trois d' pour chefcune vergie paflante par la main de lefney et fon aportant des fervices comme deffus et des aides couftumieres de Normendie. errin lapoftore huit vergies et demie en trois pieces la premiere en trans de la marene joux les heres Perrin le Frances et Jouhan le Suour des coftes bute fur le quemin tendant de Baupte au moulin de Tombe la feconde en dit trans joux Jehan le Suour et Robert Taillefer a caufe de fa fame des coftes bute audit quemin la terche en trans de Traveffain joux Jehan le Suour et Meftre Jehan Bloville des coftes bute au quemin deflus dit. Xoufjan le jfrances deux vergies en trans de la Danoudire joux Meftre Jehan Bloville et Jehan Colete des coftes bute fur la rue de Pontannin et en doit iij d' pour chefcune vergie et fa part des fervices et aides deffus dites femblable. 0 uillot le JFepute une vergie et demi de terre a lefpine joux Guillem le Suour et Denis Caperon des coftes bute fur le quemin tendant a Baupte au moulin de Tombe et en doit iij d' pour chefcune vergie et les fervices et aides femblable. 1 Blank in original. Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. 53 Booert Caillefec a caufe de fa fame une vergie et demie de terre foubz les mattez de Pontannin joux Perrin la Poftore et Guillem Lemiere des coftes bute fur la cariere tendante au marefc. Et en doit femblable iij d. pour chefcune vergie et fa part des rentes fervices et aides deflus dis. fo. 4.9 a caufe de fa fame deux vergies de terre en fon herbegaige aflis dedens joux Guillem le Suour et Guillem Lemiere des coftes bute fur le quemin tendant de Beufeville a la Haie Dupuis. Et en doit femblable iij d' tournois pour chefcune vergie a la dicle fefte et fa part des fervices et aides deflus dis. Et en doit a Alixandre Caperon deux boifleaux de fourment mefure de Coignies. Omllaume le ^uout vi vergies de terre en deux pieces la premiere contenante iiij vergies en trans de la terre Saint Pierre joux le dit Guillem et les heres Thomas le Prevoft bute fur Simon Caperon. La feconde contenante deux vergies joux le quemin du Homme et les dis heres du dit Prevoft bute fur les heres Jehan Guillem. Et en doit femblable trois d' pour chefcune vergie et fon aportant des fervices et aides deflus dis. Et fi doit la premiere piece de terre vj boifleaux de fourment mefure de Coignies au trefor de leglife Saint Pierre de Coignies. lefjan Colete ie tiers dune acre de terre en trans de la Danodire joux Jouhan le Frances et le dit Jehan des coftes bute fur la rue de Pontannin. Et en doit iiij d' tournois a la Saint Albin paflants la main de lefney et fon aportant des rentes et fervices deflus dis. Et fi en doit a la de guerpie Thomas le Soc deux reis davene a la meffure de Coignies. HCS t)Ctg 3lCbail CapCCOn une vergie ou eft aflis leur mefuage a Franquetot joux Alixandre Caperon et la rue de Franquetot des coftes bute fur Olivier. Et en doivent a Denis Defeyne neuf boifleaux de fourment meflure de Franquetot. ^ttttl une vergie en la croute joux Denis Caperon des fo. 50. coftes bute fur le dit Denis. 3!tTm une vergie en trans de la helle joux Denis Caperon et Alixandre Caperon des coftes bute fur Guillem Aubri. 3! t"C!lt une vergie fur le prey joux Seveftre Barbey et Jehan Anquetil des coftes bute fur les preis de Franquetot. JtClll une vergie en la croute Ofouf joux Denis Caperon et le dit Alixandre des coftes bute fur la riviere du marefc. JfCm une vergie a la mairc Ofouf joux le dit Alixandre et le dit Denis des coftes bute fur Guille Mathieu. JtZ\n demie vergie a la Vallee joux Simon Caperon et le dit Denis bute fur la riviere du marefc. 'JtCUl trente perques de terre a la fofle joux Denis Caperon et Thomas le Jolis bute au quemin tendant du moftier de Coignies a Franquetot. 31 IT1 demie vergie de prey es preis de Franquetot joux Simon Caperon et le dit Denis bute fur le dit Denis. Et en doivent trois deniers pour chefcune vergie et fon aportant des fervices et aides deflus dis. 54 Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. Omllaume Eotiert a caufe de fa fame demie acre de terre 1 marez joux les Quetre- villes et Jehan Guillem des coftes bute fur les Quetrevillez. 3tntt demie vergie a la Vallee joux Simon Caperon et Alixandre Caperon des coftes bute fur la riviere du marefc. 31 tCTTl demie acre de terre a la Vallee joux Oliveret Guillem et les heres Colin Caperon des coftes bute fur la riviere du marefc. 3]ttttt une vergie a la maire Ofouf joux le dit Alixandre des coftes bute fur Simon Caperon. 3|t£tn une vergie illec joux le dit Alixandre des coftes bute fur la riviere du marefc. 31 tdTl trente perques au Bertot joux Denis Caperon et Oliveret Guifle des coftes bute fur la riviere du marefc. 31 tCttt une vergie au prey Nre Dame joux les heres Jehan Guifle et les heres Colin Caperon bute fur Jehan Anquetil. ^ItXitt deux vergies aux Noes Caperon joux Guille le Suour et Perrin laPoftore des coftes bute fur Guillot le Feyvre. 31 demie acre en dit trans joux Ricart le Quetrevilles et Oliveret Guifle des coftes bute fur le dit Feyvre. 3 tClTX une vergie en dit trans joux le dit Oliveret et le dit Guillem des coftes bute fur Guillem Lemiere. Et doit femblable trois d' tournois pour chefcune vergie et fon aportant des fervices et aides deflus dis. fo. 5o b . ■£0)0 mas le jCuietrcmUes tant lui que fes aleroms huit vergies de terre et le tiers de deux vergies lesqueilles font en vj pieces, premiere le dit Thomas tient du dit fieu en fon non trois vergies de terre ou eft aflis fon herbegaige a Pontannin joux lele Thomas et Ricart les Quetrevilles des coftes bute fur la rue de Pontannin et fur le quemin tendant du moulin de Tombe a Baupte. Et en doit iij d. pour chefcune vergie femblable et fon aportant des fervices et aides deflus dis. Et fi en doit trois boifleaux de fourment meflure de Coignies et une guelline a Guillem le c'eir [cufenier ?] de labbe de Lefley. Item 3lefmn Colete tient du dit fieu foubz laille du dit Thomas une vergie et le tiers dune vergie en trans de la Danoudire joux le dit Jehan et Perrin la Poftore des coftes bute fur la rue de Pontannin et en doit femblable trois d' pour chefcune vergie et fon portant des deux tiers et des fervices et aides deflus dis. Xtem Pemn la PafiOre une vergie et le tiers de deux vergies en trans deflus dit joux Colin Houel et Jehan Colete des coftes bute fur la rue de Pontannin. Et en doit iij d' pour vergie femblable et fon portant du tiers et des fervices et aides deflus dis. 3t£ltl il en doit au trefor de leglife de Saint Martin de Vuidefont j boiflel de fourment meflure de Coignies. Hes fjers P&ot lowjan une vergie en Mont des Fourques joux Guillem le Suour et Ricart Dyanne des coftes bute fur Thomas le Queminant des bus. Et en doit iij d' pour vergie et fa part des fervices et aides deflus dis. 1 Blank in original. Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. 55 Item Eicart SDpanne une vergie niec joux les heres Phot Jehan et Guillem le Suour des coftes bute fur Thomas le Queminant des bus. Et en doit iij d' pour chefcune vergie et fa part des aides et fervices defTus dis. 'Cftomas ie Ctuemmant une vergie al ourme de Franquetot joux Simon Caperon bute fur le quemin tendant de Beufeville a la Haie Dupuis. Et en doit iij d' pour chefcune vergie et fa part des fervices et aides defTus dis. 53lCatt it £EXU0ttCt)llle0 une piece de terre contenant trois vergies ou viron et eft fon mefuage aflis dedens a Pontannin joux Denis le Ouetrevilles et le dit Ricart des coftes bute fur la rue de Pontannin. Et en doit trois d' tournois pour chefcune vergie et fon portantdes fervices et aides defTus dis. Et fi en doit a Pierre des Grauces v. boifleaux de fourment mefure de Coignies. ^fClll a Colin le Chipaut trois boifleaux de fourment a la dicle mefure et pourpart de la croute tant a luy que de lautre fi comme le dit Ricart le dit. jSfpmOn (ZTapCtOn vergie et demie a Franquetot fon herbegaige aflis dedens joux Alixandre Caperon et le quemin tendant de Franquetot a Pontannin bute fur la rue de Franquetot et fur Guillem Mathieu des bus. 3!^™ demie vergie es fofle joux le dit Alixandre et Denis Caperon bute fur le quemin tendant au marefc. 3|tC!It demie v er g' e de prey es pres de Franquetot joux Jehan Anquetil et le dit Alixandre bute fur les heres Jehan Caperon. 3! tCllt une vergie a la Vallee joux Alixandre Caperon des coftes bute fur la riviere de Franquetot. ^JtCni demie vergie illec joux les heres Jehan Caperon et Guillem Robert a caufe de fa fame des coftes bute fur la riviere du marefc de Franquetot. 3]tttlt une vergie a la marcte joux ledit Alixandre et Thomas le Jolis des coftes bute fur les heres Jehan Caperon. jlttttl une ver g' e a ' a croute Jehan Guille joux les heres Jehan Caperon et le dit Simon des coftes bute fur Denis Caperon. ^t^ 111 une ver g' e a ' a croute Ofouf joux les heres Jehan Caperon bute fur la riviere du marefeq. Et en doit iij d* pour chefcune vergie et fon portant des rentes et fervices defTus dis. Et anfi en doit a Denis de Seyne dix boifleaux de fourment mefure de Coignies a la Saint Michel en moutes de gaiges. Dcni0 Caperon une vergie entre les leux joux Thomas Varin etSeveftre Barbey des coftes bute fur Thomas le Jolif. JtTIlt demie vergie a la Vallee joux les heres Jehan Caperon et Olivier Guifle des coftes bute fur le marefc de Franquetot. ^jttttl une vergie a la mairc Ofouf joux Simon Caperon et Jouhan Renaut des coftes bute fur Guilleme Mathieu. ^tCIll unc ver g' e '" ec joux le dit Renaut et le dit Denis des coftes bute fur Simon Caperon et fur le marefeq de Franquetot. ^tClll une vergie aux fofles es Potiers joux le dit Jolis et le dit Denis des coftes bute fur Guillem Mathieu et fur Jehan Guifle. 31 tCtll trente perques a la voie Bourdon joux les heres Jehan Caperon et le quemin de la voie Bourdon des coftes bute fur Jehan Anquetil. JtCHl xv perques en fa croute joux Pcrrin Yon efcuier 56 Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. et Jes heres Jehan Caperon des coftes bute fur Jehan Guifle. 31^^ une ver g' e a ^ a courte terre joux Jehan de Caucillie efcuier et Guillot Coufin des coftes bute fur les heres Colin de Carenton. JtCltl une vergie a la helle joux les heres Jehan Caperon et le dit Denis des coftes bute fur Guillem Aubri. 31 tCtll demie vergie en la croute joux les heres Jehan Caperon et le dit Alixandre des coftes bute fur le dit Denis. 3|t£in demie vergie de prey aux preis de Franquetot joux le dit Alixandre et les heres Jehan Caperon des coftes bute fur le dit jfotteCcti Seigno 1 du dit fieu de Franquetot. JtetTt une vergie et demie a la Goberdire joux Guillot Mathieu et Olivier Guifle des coftes bute fur le marefcq de Franquetot. ^fl tT0HX demie vergie en la croute joux Alixandre Caperon bute fur le dit Alixandre. 3] tCtlt demie vergie es fofles joux Simon Caperon bute fur le dit Caperon. Et en doit a Jehan Lele- duit de ces trois defrenniers pieces deux boifleaux de fourment mefure de Car[enton]. 3ItCltt tient demie vergie affise joux le prey Colin Challes et Olivier Guifle des coftes bute fur la voie tendante de la maifon Jehan Guifle a marefcq de Franquetot. 31 t£ttt trente perques de terre a lespinois hezart joux le dit Alixandre Caperon et Guillot le Fevre des coftes bute fur Seveftre Barbey. Et en doit au dit Signeur femblable trois d' pour chefcune vergie et fon aportant des fervices et aides deflus dis. Et fi en doit a Guillot Grout trois boifleaux mefure de Coignies fur le clos qui fut Robert le Berar. to 5 t. Xoubanne De guerpte Guillem le Marefchal trois vergies a la Hogue joux Thomas du Roquier efcuier et Thomas Anquetii des coftes bute fur Jehan Anquetil. Et en doit femblable trois deniers pour chefcune vergie et fon aportant des fervices et aides deflus dis. Quillet aireune trente perques ou partie de fon mefuage eft aflis a Franquetot joux Jehan Afleline et le dit Guillet des coftes bute fur le quemin tendant de la Pierre a cas de Franquetot. 3]tnit trente perques au quefne de Franquetot joux le dit Alixandre bute fur le quemin tendant a Beufeville au Plefleis. Et en doit audit Seigneur femblable iij d' pour chefcune vergie paflante [par] main defney et fon aportant des fervices et aides deflus dis. cefte efneche par fin de tenour par lefney dicelle aux pies dudit Seigneur tenus XX a Franquetot par moy Jehan Barbey fenefchal dudit Seigneur lan mil ccc iiij et j. le xx jour de Novembre. En prefence de moy Jehan Fouques preftre tabellion du fiege de Baupte qui pour tefmoing de ce ay mis cy mon figne manuel. Xcban aflelme Tient du dit Signeur de Franquetot tant lui que fes perchonniers une efneche refleante appelle le fieu Vigier contenant fix vergies. Et en doivent tant lui que fes perchonniers chefcun an au terme de la Saint Michel fix boifleux de fourment mefure du Pleffeiz deux pains deux guellines a Noel xx oeufs a Pafques et fervice de fain faire fervice de Prevofte et fi doit les aides couftumieres de Normendie. Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. i&remterement, lie nit affeline e f ne tient dicelle efneche deux pieces de terre affifes au hamel de Franquetot la premiere en herbegaige contenant une vergie joux le dit Jehan et le quemin qui va de Quetreville a Franquetot des coftes bute fur le quemin tendant de Franquetot au marefcq la feconde contenant trois vergies fur la Pierre de Franquetot joux le dit Jehan et Guille Coufin des coftes bute fur Guillem Affeline dun but. 53enet i^ebert une piece de terre contenant demie acre a Franquetot en trans des viellez Carrieres joux Jehan Guille et Guillet Affeline des coftes bute fur Colin Charles. Et en doit fon aportant des rentes et fervices deffus dis par la main du dit efney. CniS (ZTftpCtOn tient du dit Seigneur de Franquetot une piece de prey contenant fix perques es preis de Franquetot joux le dit Seigneur et Seveftre Barbey des coftes bute fur Jehan de Cautillie efcuier et fur Jehan Regnaut. Et en doit le dit Denis une boiffeux de fourment mefure du Pleffeiz chefcun an a la Saint Michel reliefz et xiij". quant eux chaient. une piece de terre contenant chine perques au preis de Franquetot joux Guille Mathieu et le dit Seigneur des coftes bute fur le dit Mathieu et fur Jehan Anquetil des bus. Et en doit chefcun an a la Saint Michel ung boifleux de fourment mefure du Pleffeis o homaige reliefs et xiij' 5 quant ilz chaient. ^3&llU0 P ar f es deffus dis par fin de teneur au pies du dit Seignour tenus a Franquetot par f 0 . IX Jehan Barbey fenefchal du dit Seigno r lan mil ccc iiij. En prefence de moy Jehan Fouque preftre tabellion du fiege de Baupte qui pour tefmoing de ce ay mis cy mon figne manuel. Item Jefjan affeline doit au dit s e ignour quatre boiffeaux de fourment mefure du Pleffeiz de rente et a juftice piece de terre contenant trois vergies en lefclufete de Franquetot joux Ricart le Bourges dun coftey et Thomas Anquetil dautre bute fur lefclufete de Franquetot et fur le venid qui fut Guillem Bauptes dautre de la vente au dit Jehan faidre au dit Signour per voie dexecucion a eftre en juftice par le Sergent du Roy noftre feigneur par corps et par biens non obftant la juftice deffus dis comme il appert par lettre paffe a Carenton devant Phot Hais tabellion du lieu le ix' jour Davril Ian mil ccc iiij ainfi figne. P. Hais. 58 Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. doit audit Seigneur trois boiffeux de fourment mefure de Franquetot de rente et a juftice deux pieces de terre et fur chefcune piece pour le toult affis en franc fieu de Franquetot, la premiere piece a la Troucele contenant j e . vergie joux Guille Afleline et les heres Colin du Hamel bute fur le douit tendant dilleoque au mollineau de Franquetot et fur le dit Guille Afleline des bus, la feconde a la maire au Sor joux les heres Michel a 1 et Pierres le Marefchal des coftes bute fur le dit lieu du mollinel et fur la di£te maire au Sor des bus laqueille rente le dit Bourges eft tenu fournir fans amenifement de la vente Pierres Yon comme il appert par lettre pafle devant Dan XX Jehan Fouques tabellion de Baupte le ix e jour de Juillet lan mil ccc iiij. f°. 53 b - J©pmon Cap 0tOn doit audit Seigneur ij boiffeaux de fourment mefure du Plefleiz de rente et a juftice fur toult fon heritaige et ce non obftant foblige a eftre en juftice par le Sergent etc. ou par le Prevoft du dit Signour touteffois etc. par tous fes biens meubles et heritaiges comme il appert par lettre XX pafle devant le dit Hais tabellion de Carenten le premier jour Davril lan mil ccc iiij et j. ainfi figne. P. Hais. jEDirantire ote les Caperons doivent audit Seignour trois boiffeaux de fourment a la mefure Symon 1 du Plefleiz un pain de manfe un capon un pain une guelline a Noel dix oeufs a Pafques done le dit Alixandre paira ij boiffeaux du dit fourment j pain j capon et le dit Simon paera j boiffel du dit fourment le dit pain et gueline et dix oeufs en la maniere que dit eft. Et a juftice fur le tenement fubget a xxix boiffeaux et le tiers dun boiffel de fourment que ont acquis les dis Caperons de Denis de Seyne bourges de Perreis et non obftant fobligent a eftre en juftice par le Sergent du Roy noftre feignor par voie dexecucion et fur tous leurs autres heritaiges et fur chefcun pie pour letout et de chefcun de eulx comment il appert par lettre pafle devant Thomas Pierres Viconte de Carenton la iiij e jour de Mars lan mil ccc iiij. tcatt De Crefgos doit uns gans de iij d' pour malpertiuz que paie a prefent Simon Caperon a fere en juftice fur j e vergie et demie de terre aflife en la croute Jouh joux le dit Simon des coftes bute fur Pierre le Marefcal dun but et fur la voie de la foffe Pippet, et avecque ce en doit le dit Simon au dit JfoUtcCctt aides reliefs xiij es et fervice tant de prevofte que autres etc. et ya a prendre Pierres des Granches ij boiffeaux de fourment de la vente Girart le Prevoft. 0 tullaume Contoenable doit uns gans de iij d' o hommaige que paie a prefent Seveftre Barbeya to - 54- fere en juftice fur demie vergie de terre aflife en fon mefuage joux le dit Barbey dun coftey par devers la granche du dit mefuage et dautre cofte eft vanid au clos du dit Barbey et bute dun but a la rue de 1 Blank in original. Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. 59 Franquetot et de lautre fur Guille Coufin. 31 tZVtl fur trente perques de terre afiifes au clos Goderel joux les heres Thomas Varin et Seveftre Barbey des coftes bute dun but fur le Priour du Frefne et fur Jehan Anurey dautre. Et doit le dit teneur au dit JfortcCCU reliefs xiij e3 fervices et aides quant il chaient. Et y prennent les heres Jourdan Convenable deux boifleaux de fourment fur le dit teneur. Bicart et Denis le Ctuetretnllcs doyvent ij boifleux de fourment mefure de Coignies par lettre executore a juftice fur tous leurs heritaiges et fur chefcun pie pour le tout de la vente Jehan Courtel fi come il appert par lettre real fur ce faite. Folio 54- b is blank. 6o Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. €p enftttt la mantere tomme &tcf)art Jforteftu efcuier Seigneur du Buiflbn tient fa terre et de qui et les rentes quil en doit premiers enfuit la teneur de fon franc fieu de Franquetot. JEJtcfjart jForteftu tient fon fieu de Franquetot par foy et par homaige de noble homme Mons. Michel le Baftart de Guefclin et de Madame fa fame a caufe delle par le quart dun fieu de Haubert tenir franchement et noblement a court et ufage a fimple gaige et plege affis es parroifles de Quetre- ville et de Coignies en Bauptez. Et en doit le dit jf OCtfCCU audit chevalier et dame a caufe delle les aides couftumieres telles comme audit quart de fieu peult appartenir par raifon et par couftume la garde ou le relief quant le cas foffre. Eta le dit jfOTtCfCU en dit fieu plufieurs rentes fervices faifances et redevances et pluffieurs autres nobleces et dignites franchifes et droites fegon ceque ledit jfOCtCfCU et fes predeceflburs en ont ufe en temps pafle. Item Bicfmrt JFortefcu tient fon franc fieu de Mons par foy et par hommaige du Roy notre Seigneur par le fexte dun fieu de Haubert et le tient noblement et franchement a court et ufaige a fimple gaige et plege done le chief du dit fieu eft affis en la parroifle de Sainte Marie du Mont et fe eflent en la parroifle de Brucheville. Et en doit ledit jfoCtcCdl au Roy notre Seigneur les aids couftumieres telles comme audit fiexte de fieu peult appartenir par raifon et par couftume la garde ou le relief quant le cas fouffre. Et a en dit fieu pluffieurs rentes et ung moulin a eau fervices faifances et redevances et pluffieurs autre nobleces franchifes droitures et dignites fegon ce que lui et fes predeceflburs en ont ufe en temps pafle, etc. fa 55 b - Item BtCfWtt JFOrtefCU tient fon franc Deftaville par foy et par hommaige de noble homme Mons. Guille aux Efpaulles chevalier par huitiefme dun fieu de Haubert noblement et franchement a court et ufaige a fimple gaige et plege done le chief eft affis en la parroifle de Sainte Marie du Mont. Et en doit le dit OTtefCU au dit Mons. Guilleme les aides couftumiers telles comme audit huitiefme de fieu peut appartenir par raifon et par couftume la garde ou le relief quant le cas fouffre. Et a en dit fieu pluffieurs rentes fervices faifances et reddevances et pluffieurs aultres nobleces franchifes droitures et dignites fegon ce que lui et fes predeceflburs en ont ufe en temps pafle, etc. Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. 61 Item enfuit la fourme comme IRl'cfyart jfottCfCU tient fon franc fieu de Hubertville et comme il le bailla. Soubz la fouverainete du Roy notre Seigneur je l£UtljuTt jfOUteCCU a caufe de Guill'ete du Hommet confefle et avoue tenir en parage en premier degrey le ligne de noble homme Monfieur Jehan du Hommet chevalier Seignour de la Varanguire froyre de la di£te damoiflelle une vavafourie contenant foixante acres de terre de laqueille les hers de feu Jehan de Beuffeville de Hubertville font en ma foy et hommaige. Et en eft le chief affis en la dicle parroifle de Hubertville ung coulombier feant dedens et feftent en la parroifle de Saint Germain de Tournebuc et la tiennent les dite hers de Beufeville de moy franchement et honnourablement a court et ufaige o Ample gaige et plege. Et en fuy tenu faire audit chevalier telles droitures comme il appert aparagier en premier degrey de ligne. Et men doivent les dis hers chefcun an onze libres tournois de rente au jour Saint Michel et fi men doivent la garde ou le relief et les aides couftumieres quant le cas fofFre. ItCttl enfuit la teneur comme Jehan de Beufeville de Hubertville bailla a 3!cljilll jfortcfftl sa teneur qui dit ainfi. Je Jehan de Beufeville confefle et avoue tenir foubz et en la haulte jurifdiccion du Roy fo. de Navarre mon trefredoubte Seigneur par foy et par hommaige de Jcljilll jfOftcftU et de Guillete du Hommet fa fame a caufe delle une vavaflburie tenue franchement et honnourablement o court et ufaige et a toult ce qui a Ample gaige et pleige peut et doit apertenir contenant foixante acres de terre done le chief eft aflis en la parroifle de Huberteville ung coulombier feant dedens et feftent tant en la dicTte parroifle que en celle de Saint Germain de Tournebuc. Et en doy audit jfot'tcfcil et a fa dicle fame par raifon de lafliete et tournee que len avoit faite a caufe de la dide fame Jehan du Hommet efcuier Seignour du dit lieu de la Varanguire froyre dicelle chefcum an de rente au terme de la Saint Michel onze libres tournois et les reliefs et les aides couftumieres toutes foiz que eulz chaient. En tefmoing de ce cefte lettre eft fcellee du feel des obligacions de la Viconte de Valoignes qui ya cfle mis a ma requefte le feptieme jour de Mars lan mil ccc foixante et treze. ^I^tCm enfuit comme HilCljuTf jfot'tCfCU tient fon franc fieu du Buiflbn affis en la parroifle de Sainte Marie du Mont lequel il tient de Mons. de Saint Sauveur le Viconte a caufe et par raifon de la barronie Dauebec par une franche vavaflburie contenante foixante acres de terre done le chief eft aflis en la didte parroifle ung coulombier feant dedens et ung moulin a eau et feftent en la parroifle de Brucheville et a le dit JFot'tpfCtl pluffieurs fervices fraunchifes droitures et dignites appcrtenants audit fieu et vavaflourie et aufi a droit de vres quant eulx arrivent fur les metes de fon fieu et vavaflburie comment il peult appare par lettre de baillie fur ce faite done la copie enfuit. Et en doit ledit jfOtttfCU audit Seigneur foy et hommaige et fi en doit iij s' tournois pour aide qui fe paient de trois an en trois ans quant le monnaige chief. Et les doit ledit OlTCfttt paier au Prevoft Dangoville qui les paie au comptour du Seigneur, et aufi doit ledit JfOTtCfCll reliefs xiij' s . et les iij aides couftumieres quant eulx chaient. tOUS CClllr qui ces lettres verront ou orront Mahie de Varennez bailli de Saint Sauveur le to. 62 Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. Viconte et de Nehou pour Mons. de la Riviere feigneur defdis lieux falut, comme en la parroifle de Sainte Marie du Mont en lan mil ccclx et quinze devant pafle fut venu et arrivey ung poiflbn appelle ung Cernot de mer en fieu et feignourie de Jefyan jfottxCctt efcuier appelle le fieu du Buiflbn en la di£le parroifle lequeil par le Sergent ordinaire du lieu euft efte mis en fauvete et feure garde affin que la mer ne len portaft ou que perdu ne fuft par aucuns des gens du pais ou autrement a la pourfuite du quel poiflbn requerir a avoir a certaine journee daffifles tenues audit lieu de Saint Sauveur fe fut repre- fente le dit efcuier et oppofe difant et affermant que es lieux et metes ou eftoit venu et arrivey ledit poiflbn ce avoit efte en fon dit propre fieu et feignourie ou queil et ailleurs en dit fieu et granage en la dicte parroifle appertenant audit efcuier des chofes illecques venans et arrivans lui et ceulx done il avoit la caufe et le droit avoient eu bonne pofleflion et faifine toulte fois que le cas fe eftoit offert lef- pafle de quarante ans et de plus et tant de temps que il neftoit autre memoire du contraire. Et euft requis fur ce que juftice fe informal! comme il appert et fegon lordenance de lefchie faicle en tel cas ou aultrement femblable afin que fommierement et deplain fans figure de proces joux la di£te ordonnance len procedat en cas fur laqueille oppoficion et requefte eu fur ce confeil et avis une veue eult efte affife en la dicle parroife entre Pierres Feron procureur dudit Seigneur dune part et le dit efcuier dautre a certain a journee par Jehan Bifel fergant commis ad ce de laccort des dicles partiez la quelle veue monftree et fouftenue entre ledit procureur dune part et ledit efcuier dautre du retour de laqueille veue Sachent tous que es aflifes dudit lieu de Saint Sauveur et de Nehou tenues audit lieu de Saint Sauveur par nous Bailli deffusdit lan de grace mil ccc lx et feze le tiers jour Davril la veue faite entre le dit procureur dune part et le dit efcuier dautre part douze hommes prefens et paflants fans fon en juge- ment entre lefdit parties done les nons enfuivent Ceft aflavoir Colin Manfel dit lefpicier, Perrin Lurier, Colin Jamet, Perrin Maillart, Thomas Bernart, Thomas Le Roy, Jehan Ernaud, Colin Lurier, Robert le Proudomme, Ph' Lemor, Jehan Famot et Phot Petit varlet, ledit efcuier dit et propofa que en la monftree faite ceft aflife la quelle avoit eftoy a la di£te veue et monftree dicelle bonnee codee fo. 57. et devifee en y metant bailie pour faire declaracion des lieux entre les dicles bailies es queilles difant le dit efcuier avoir droit davoir lefdites vres illecques vennans et arrivans en fon dit fieu et granage a lui appartenant en queil lieu entre les di£tes baillies ledit vrec eftoit venu et arrivey done queftion eftoit a prefent et aillours au dehours des di enfutt la teneur tie la Iettre comme Drouet du Buiflbn efcuier bailla a Jcfjan jfoCtcfCtl efcuier le fieu du Buiflbn ovecque toultes fes appertenances affifes en la paroifle de Saindte Marie du Mont. jEL tous ceulr qui ces lettres verront ou orront. Martin Lours Viconte de Carenten falut. Sachent tous que par devant Colin Hais clerc tabellion jure en la dicle Viconte fut prefent a Carenten Drouet du Buiflbn efcuier qui de fa pure voulente fans aucum contraignement congnut et confefla que il avoit quitte cefle bailie fieufle et du tout en tout a fin de heritaige deleflie a Tfcljdn jfOTtcCctl efcuier le fieu du Buiflbn ovecque toutes fes appertenances aflifes en la parroifle de SaincSte Marie du Mont. Ceft aflavoir le manoir du dit Drouet ovecque le coulombier et les gardins a ce appartenans le moulin les prais le vivier les demaignes terres labourables et autres que le dit efcuier avoit en la di£te parroifle Ainffi comme les choffes deflufdites fe pourportent et eftendent et comme eux font garinez tant en fons tresfons que fourfaiz ovecque toultes les rentes tant en formens avenies deniers refgars pains guelines oeufs et autres chofes queconque. Et toulte la droiture que le dit efcuier pourroit et devoit avoir a caufe dudit fieu ovecque fes appertenances tant en court et ufaige a Ample gaige et plege appartenants reliefs en trefiemes en amendes et explez en juftice et en jurdicion tant en terres en eaux em bois que em plain ovecqz toultes les motes vertes et feques au molin appartenants. Et ovecque tous les fervices deubz et appertenants audit Drouet tant a caufe du dit molin que autre a caufe du dit fieu ovecque fes appertenances et toultes les droitures franchifes dignites hommaiges et libertes que le dit Drouet pouvoit et devrit avoir et qui a ycelluy pouvoient et devoient appartenir par raifon du dit fieu ovecque fes appertenances fans aucune chofe retenir ou excepter en aucune maniere de quiconque manicre ou eftat que ce (bit ou puifle eflre. A tcnir pourfuir et avoir derenavant a heritaige audit Jf Ot'tCfCU et a fo. 6o b . fes hers et es avans caufe de luy fans contredit debat ou empefchement que le dit Drouet y puifle mettre en temps advenir en aucune maniere. Et fans ce que le dit Drouet ne fes hers ou autre avans caufe de luy y puifle jamais aucune chofle demander avoir reclameir par quiconque voie maniere ou condicion que fe foit ou puifle eftre Ainffi que ledit jfoi'tcfftl paiera et rendra dorenavant laide deue a Saint Sauveur le Viconte a caufe dudit fieu tout feullment. Et fut ce fait pour ce que ledit jfot'fcftu bailla tourna et aflic a heritage audit Drouet les rentes qui enfuient a prendre dorenavant chefcum an fur les hommes dudit Jf OTfCfCU en la dicSle parroifle de Saindte Marie du Mont, joux ce et la maniere qui enfuiet. Celt aflavoir fur Eftienne le Berriner dix boifleaux de forment a la mefure de Tollevaft, fur Jehan de Neele cinq boifleaux davene a la di£le mefure, fur Thomas Robice vij quartiers davenc a la 9 65 66 Char trier de Richart Fortefcu. di£te mefure, fur Deftoqueville, trois boifleaux de fourment a la di6te mefure, fur Pierres Berot et fa fame a caufe delle, Rogier Petit et fa fame a caufe delle et fur Pierres Lilier viij boifleaux de four- ment a la di£te mefure, fur Guille Petitvalet dit Roufet trois boifleaux et demy de fourment a la grant mefure. Item fix boifleaux de fourment a la mefure de Tollevaft et trois boifleaux davene a la dicte mefure de Tollevaft, fur Guille le Marchant deux boifleaux de forrment ala mefure de Tollevaft, fur Pierres Lilier fept boifleaux de forment a la grant mefure. Sur la deguerpie Hebert de Preftot douze boifleaux davene a la grant mefure, fur Thomas Bermont dit Tieuclin deux boifleaux de for- ment a la grant mefure. Item quartier davene a la grant mefure, fur Colin fept boifleaux davene a la grant mefure. Sur Jehan Syfroy deux boifleaux de forment a la mefure de Tollevaft. Sur Guilleme Enguelier un boifleaux de forment a la grant mefure, fur Perrin le Heribel trois boifleaux davene, a la grant mefure. Item vij quartier de forment a la grant mefure. Sur Raoul Coufin vij boifleaux de forment a la mefure de Tollevaft, fur les hers Guille Lecomte vij boifleaux de forrment a la mefure de Tollevaft, fur Rogier Bermont vij quartier davene a la mefure de Tollevaft. Sur Robin Le- mor trois boifleaux de forment a la mefure de Tollevaft. Sur Colin du Hamel chinq boifleaux de for- ment a la grant mefure, fur Guille Eftienne vij quartier davene a la grant mefure de Tollevaft, fur Colin fo. 61. du Hamel chinq boifleaux de forment a la grant mefure, fur Guillem Eftienne vij quartier davene a la grant mefure, fur Perrin la Canne dit Sablon houit boifleaux de forment a la grant mefure, fur les hers Albi le Bailli ix boifleaux de forment a la grant mefure, fur Colin Fiquet fept boifleaux de forment a la grant mefure, fur Perrin Hamelin deux boifleaux de forment a la grant mefure, fur Perrin Berot trois boifleaux de forment ala mefure de Tollevaft, fur Michel le Breton douze boifleaux davenie a la grant mefure. Sur Thomas Ernaud vij quartier davenie a la grant mefure, fur Thomaflet Bourdet vij boifleaux de forment a la mefure de Tollevaft, fur d5uillcttt0 jfOCtCftU vij boifleaux de forment mefure de Tollevaft, fur Thomas le Fae vij quartier de forment a la mefure de Tollevaft. Sur Michel le Coretel chinq boifleaux de fourment a la mefure de Tollevaft, fur Jehan Mauchiz vij quartiers de four- ment a la grant mefure, fur les hers Guillem Malofel deux boifleaux de fourment a la mefure de Tollevaft, fur Jehennet de Hanville dix boifleaux de fourment a la grant mefure, fur Perrin Angot houit boifleaux de forment a la mefure de Tollevaft. Sur Colin Mancel dit Lefpicier, trois boifleaux de forment a la mefure Deftoquebule. Sur Robin le Piart trois boifleaux de fourment a la mefure de Brucheville. Sur Jouhan Lemor fix boifleaux de forment a la mefure de Tollevaft. Et pour ycelles rentes avoir et paier le dit Drouet fes heres et avans caufe de luy pourront faire juftice fur tous les heritaiges et tenemens que tiennent les dis hommes du dit jf OTtCfCU en la di£te paroifle de Sain&e Marie du Mont toutes et quantes foiz que meftier en fera les queilles le dit jfOTtefCU promift et fe obliga garanter fournir delivrer deffendre et mettre hors de tous empefchemens franchir quitter enteigner fournir fans decheance et fans amenifement ou aillours efchange en fon propre heritaige, value a value fe meftier en eftoit les queilles rentes deffufdis fe montent et peuvent valer deux boifleaux daveine a value pour ung boiflel de forment a chefcune des di£tes mefures et lune mefure equipollee et avaluee lune a lautre a la fomme et value de trente et fept quartier et trois boifleaux de fourment a la mefure de la di£te ville de Sain&e Marie du Mont. Et pour parfaire la fomme de quarante quartiers a ycelle mefure que le dit jf OTttCCU eftoit tenu a faire audit Drouet a heritaige pour caufe du dit manoir gardin fo. 6i b . coulombier moulin de eau preis terres labourables et autres o leur appertenances le dit jfOTtCfCU fe obliga paier rendre chefcum an audit Drouet et a fes heires ix boifleaux de forment a icelle mefure jufque atant quil en ait fait tourne et afliete audit Drouet et a fes heres en la ferganterie de Sain&e Marie du Mont foufiflant et ovecque ce promift et fobliga le dit jfOTtefCU paier et rendre doreenavant Char trier de Richart Fortefcu. 6 7 chefcum an audit Drouet et a fes heres autant de rente et regars tant en forment aveine deniers pains guelines oifeaulx et oeufs, comme il fera trouve et poura apparer par les hommes et tenans du dit Drouet a caufe du dit fieu o fes appertenances lui deuffe chefcum an a heritaige cent foulz. Et pour ce et pour paier le dis ix boifleaux de forment le dit jfottCfCU pourra efter juftice toulte et quantes foiz que meftier en fera par execucion de juftice jufque atant quil en ait fait affiete fouffifant audit Drouet ou a fes heres en la dicte fergantrie de Saincle Marie du Mont, la quelle affiete le dit Drouet et fes hers ferront tenus a prendre par une fois ou pluffiours toutes et quantez foiz quil plaira audit jfortetXU ou a fes heres. Et la dicte affiete faicle en toult ou en partie le dit jfOTttCCU et fes heires feront tenus fournir garantir delivrer et deffondre tout ce qui en faifant et acompliflant la di£te affiete fera baillie tournee et affie fauf que en tant comme thouche certains deniers daide que doivent a caufe dudit fieu demourer a heritage audit JforttfCU et a fes heres pour faire lacquit dicelluy par devers le Seigneur fouverain fans ce que le dit jfoCttfCU ou fes heres en ferront tenus a faire en paie- ment ou affiete audit Drouet ou a fes heires en autre maniere. Et pour ce le dit Drouet promift et fe obliga pour lui et pour fes heres et pour tous autre avans caufe de luy a garantir deffendre et mettre hors de tous empefchemens audit jfortCfCU et a fes heres avans caufe de luy le dit fieu ovecque fes appartenances ovecque tout le droit accion propriete pofce faire juftice feignourie fefine et reclaim quil avoit pouvoit et devoit avoir en toutes les chofes deflus dicles et en chefcum dicelles ou ailleurs en fon propre heritaige efchange value a value fouffiffant fe meftier en eftoit. Et quant a toultes les chofes de fur di£tes et a chefcune dicelles tener enteigner et acomplir de point en point en la maniere que deffus font devifes les dicles parties chefcun de foy et pour tant comme a foi et en fon fait touche oblige eux et leurs heres et tous leurs biens et de leurs heres meubles et heritaiges prefens et advenir partout ou que eux foient trouves et foubz quiconque juridicion a eftre prins vendus et explectes et defpendus de jour en jour de homme a autre a tel feur tel vente par excecucion fans figure de Jugement lone proces en erreur de plet. Et pour rendre et reftituer lune partie a lautre ou au porteur de ces lettres tous les coux mifes et defpenfes qui pour deffaute des chofes deflus dicles ou aucun dicelles tenir acomplir et enteigner ou pour ycelles faire acomplir et enteigner feroient eux fois et fouftenus done chefcun des didtes parties feroit creu par fon ferment fimple fans tauxe de juftice ferement en aucune promis fere et vouldrent et acordrent les dicles parties chefcune de foy et pour tant comme a foy et a fon fet appert que le porteur de ces lettres puifle pour- fuire requerrer demander et aver excecucion de ces prefentes en tout ce que en elles font peuvent et doivent eftre excecute tant en principal defpenfes que en toutes autre chofes en jugement et dehors par tout ou il devra et poura appartenir fans autre atournee ou procuracion monftrer et voult et acorda le dit Drouet que le dit jf OCtCfCU puifle prendre la cefine realement et defait le dit fieu ovecque fes appertenances et ovecque toutes le chofles de fur didles des queilles il fe decefit prefentment devant le dit tabellion en baillant en cefine et pofleffion a icelui audit JfOL'tcfCtt devant icelui. Et quil fen puifle faire baillier pofleffion et cefine a heritaige au fergant du Roy notre Seigneur fe il voit que a lui appartiene. Et a ce fut prefente {Catherine du Kommet femme dudit Drouet a la quelle il donna audlorite qui prefentement et exprefement renonche a tout ce quelle peult avoir demander reclamer par maniere de douare viage ou autre en tout le dit fieu ovecque fes appertenances, et ovecque toultes les chofes de fur dicles. Sans ce que james elle puifle contredire obvier rappeller ou empefcher les chofes de furdicls ou aucun dicelles pour caufe de douare ob viage mariage empefchement ou autre en quiconque maniere que ce foit ou puifle eftre. Sauf a la dicle damoiflele a aver tel douare ou viage comme a lie pourroit et deveroit appertenir fur les rentes deflus dicles et fur les 68 Chartrier de Richart Fortefcu. chofles baillies et acordes eftre fetes et paiez par le dit JfoCtCfCU a caufe et par raifon des chofes defurdites joux ce et en la maniere que defur eft di£te et devife. Etrenonchent fur ce les di£tes parties fo. 62 b . chefcun de foy et pour tant comme a foy et a fon fet peult et doit appertenir. Et la dicte damoiflelle a lautorite defur didte en tant comme le cas et les chofles deflurdites la peuvent et doivent touche a toulte excepcion de decepcions de fraude de malice circonueife barat et cavillacion de faet de droit canon ou fivil de couftume ou de ufaige a toultes grantes privileges de Roy ou de Prince ou autre fignours a lettres deftat et refpit ou prorogacion ou relevacion dobligacion de Roy de Princes ou dautre fignours ottries ou a ottrier foubz quiconque forme au droit velleien introduit a la faveur des fames a toult priviliege de crois prins ou aprendre. Et generalement a toutes les chofes qui aidier et valoir leur pourroient obvier a contredire et empefcher et aler en contre les chofes de furdites ou autres dicelles generalement ou efpecialment en aucune maniere. Et efpecialment au droit generale renon- ciacion non valer. Et jurerent les di£tes parties et la dicle femme o lau&orite defurdite chefcum de foy et pour tant comme a foy et a fon fet touche a Saindtes Evangiles de Dieu que james fur les chofles de furdites ou aucun dicelles niront ou vendront ne aler ne venir ne feront par eux ou par autres en aucune maniere quelle quelle foit ou puifle eftre. En tefmoing de ce nous a la relacon dudit tabellion avon mis le grant fceel done nous ufon aux caufes de la di£te Viconte en labcence du fceel des obligacions dicelle. Fetes et pafles lan de grace mil ccc fexante et chinq le xxviij 6 jour du mois de Janvier. qui ces lettres verront Martin Lours Viconte de Carenten falut, faver faifons que lan de grace mil ccc lxv le xxix 6 Jour de Janvier a Carenten par devant nous furent prefens 31tl)3n jfOCtcCCU efcuier de vne part et Drouet du Biffon efcuier de autre. Et recongnurent et confeflerent les di£tes parties et chefcun de foy et come a foy et a fon fet touche que toultes les chofles contenues et done mencion eft fete aux lettres par les queilles ces prefentes font annexes eftoient bonnes et vraes et que ycelles avoient paflees congneuez et confefles chefcun en tant comme a fon fet appert en la fo. 63. maniere que contenu eft en ycelles. Et dabundant prefens par devant nous empris ce que les di&es lettres eurent efter leuez et deligemment entendus en leur prefence les dis efcuiers chefcun en fon fet loerent approuverent confermerent congnurent confeflerent et ratisfierent toultes les chofes contenus et done mencion eft fete aux didles lettres. Et vouldrent et acorderent que elles tiengnent doreenavant inviolablement et fans en fraindre de point en point en la maniere que elles font didres et devifes. Sans ce que les dit efcuiers leurs heres ou aucun avant caufe de eux puifle james contredire ou empefcher que ellez naient effiet par quelque voie maniere ou condicion que ce foit ou puifle eftre. Et quant a ce et aux chofles deflufdi&es tenir et acomplir joux ce que deflus eft dit lefdit efcuiers chefcun de foy et en fon fet fobligent tant pour eux que pour leurs heres, et pour tous aultres avans caufe de eux fur la capcion et obligacion et prinfe de toulx leurs biens meubles et heritaiges prefens et advenir vendue et exple£tacion diceux. Et tefmoing de ce ces lettres font fcellees du grant feel des caufes de ladi&e Viconte faiftes et donneez en lan et jour deflufdits. OCp enftrit la teneur ne la lettre comme gjetjan forterm efcuier f e defcharge vers Drouet du Buiflbn efcuier de la fomme de neuf boifleaux de fourment et des rentes done mencion eft fe£le en la lettre deflus tranferipte. Char trier de Rtchart Fortefcu. 69 JEL tOUS CeUlr qUi CCS lettreS verront ou orront Michael du Mareft garde du fceel des obligations de la Viconte de Carenten falut. Comme fjatl ifOCtefClt efcuier fut tenu et obligie a tourner f 0 . 6^. et a afler a Drouet du Buiflbn efcuier neuf boifleaux de fourment de rente anuel a la grant mefure de Samite Marie du Mont de demourant de la fomme de quarante quartier de fourment done mencion eft fecle plus a plain aux lettres de contraux preanexes fes par entre eux. Et ainfi fut tenu ledit jfortcfctl au dit Drouet du Buiflbn a lui tourner et afleer autant de rente comme le dit Drouet avoit en fieu du Buiflbn. Ceft aflavoir deux boifleaux davene pour ung boiflel de fourment boiflel de fourment pour boiflel deniers pour deniers et femblable en regors oeufs et autre chofles comme plus aplain eft contenu en leurs dictes lettres et contraux lezqueilles rentes ledit OFtCfCU eftoit tenu paier de an en an a heritaige par voie de execucion jufque atant que il en euft fet afliete fouffifant au dit Drouet. Sachent tous que par devant Thomas le Paillier tabellion jure et eftabli a ce qui enfuit fut prefent 3Ic!jan jfOFtcfCtl efcuier qui prefentement tourna et aflie audit Drouet de Buiflbn les deflurdites neuf boifleaux de fourment a prendre et a avoir fur Raoul Manfel a faire pour ce juftice fur le tenement quil en tient. Et foubz la la fomme que devoit afleer le dit jfoCtffCU au dit Drouet a caufe des rentes du fieu du Buiflbn le dit jfOCtCfCU en fait afliete et tournee audit Drouet prefentement de la fomme de vint et ung boifleaux de fourment a la grant mefure de Sain£te Marie du Mont petite mefure a value a grande vint guellines et demi deux foulz vijd. pour pains chinquante oeufs fix foulz en deniers a prendre et avoir annuelement de rente fur les hommes qui enfuivent, ceft aflavoir fur Thomaflet de la Dune neuf boifleux de fourment, fur Laurent Gautre ouit boifleux de fourment, fur Perrin Paien de Brucheville trois boifleux davene et deux boifleux de fourment a la mefure de Brucheville et dix oeufs fur Eftienne le Berrier, ung boiflel dorge ung boiflel davene deux pains de manfes deux guellines. Sur Jehan de Neel vij pain de manfes une guelline. Sur Thomas Robice ung pain de manfles une guelline dix oeufs, fur Perrin Berot deux guellines trois deniers pour pains, fur Guillem le Marquant une guelline. Sur Perrin Lulier deux pains deux guellines, fur la deguerpie Herbert de Prcfcot de La Dune et fes parchon- niers deux pains de manfes deux guellines, fur Thomas Bermont ung pain de manfes ung capon dix oeufs. Sur Colin Hais une guelline, fur Guillot Enguellier une guelline, fur Perrin le Heribel ung pain, une guelline dix oeufs. Sur les heres Guilleme le Coince une pain une guelline dix oeufs. Sur f 0- t + . Robin Lemor ung pain une guelline, fur Jehan le Sergant ung pain une guelline, fur Thomaflet Bourdet, ung pain une guelline, fur Jehan Lemor une guelline, fur Guillot Eflienne trois s* de rente, fur Perrin Lulier et fa femme dix et huit deniers. Sur Rogier Petitvalet et fa femme dix et huit d'. Et a fere pour les didles rentes juftice fur les tenemens que eux entiennent. En defchargant la fomme en quoy le dit jfOCttfCtl eftoit tenu et obligie audit Drouet du Buiflbn joux le contenu en leurs diftes premieres lettres et contraus la queille tournee et afliete le dit Drouet pour luy et pour fes heres print et accepta agrey ainfi que le dit jfOUttfCU et fes heres font et feront tenus doreenavant au dit Drouet et a fes heres les rentes defurdits vers tous et contre tous garantir delivre deftendre ofter et metre hors de tous enpefchemens fournir faire valer entigner francher et quitter fans dechie et fans amenife- ment ou aillours efchie en propre heritaige dudit jfot'tCfCU et de fes heres value a value fouffifant fe meftier en eftoit. Et defuant le dit jffJt'tCfCU de lexecucion entant comme en la didle tournee fc monte, et pour tant comme touchent fix boifleaux davene de rente deux pains deux guellines alans a leglife de Sain 49, 50— 54, 55. 56, 57- (Guille), 37, 44, 50. (Jehan), 37, 47, 51, 53, 55, 56. (Milet), 35. ■ (Noez), 44, 46, 54. (Olivier), 36, 37, 4&- ■ (Roberge), 46. (Sanfon), 50. (Symon),36,44,46,47, 51,53, 54, 55, 56, 58. Caran (Thomas), 6, 7, 8, 10. Carantilly, Seigneur de, 43. Carentan (Colin de), 56. , Viconte de, v. Pierres. ■ , , v. Lours. , Garde du Seel de, v. Mareft. Carentem (Symon de), 46. Caretel (Jehan le), 20, 23. (Jouhan le), 17. Carretel (Michiel le), 13. Challes (Colin), 37, 38, 41, 46, 47, 49, 56, 57. Cheminaunt (Thomas le), 40, 50. Chipaut (Colin le), 55. Clerc (Gieffroy le), 3. (Jehan le), 17, 19, 20. (Michiel le), 2, 22. Coefnon (Ricart), 49. Coignies, les teneurs de, 34. Coince (Guilleme le), 69. Colete (Guillem), 51. (Jehan), 52, 53, 54. Convenable (Guillaume), 58. (Jourdan), 59. Index of Perfons. 73 Coq (Jaques le), 13, 17, 19, 20, 21. (Perres le), 18. (Perrin le), 17. Corbuchons ( — ), 5. Coretel (Michel le), 66. Coudran (Ricart), chev., Lettres, 25. (Richart), chev., bailli de Pontoise, etc., 31. Courcy ou Couxi (Marie de), femme de M. Guille de Briquevilte, 25, 31, 32 (chartres). Courlefnaux (Jehan), 38. Courtel (Jehan), 52, 59. (Perrin), tabellion, 32. Coufin (Guilleme ou Guillaume), 36, 37, 38, 40, 42, 47> 48, 49. So, 51, 57, 59, 69. (Guillot), 41, 56. (Raoul), 66. Couftances, Mons. de, 69. Couftour (Eftienne le), 12. (Raoul le), 4, 10. Couxi, v. Courcy. Crefnon (Ricart), 41. Crefpin ( — ), 62. Damien (Robert), 37. Dauneville ou Danncville (Guilleme), efcuier, 21, 28, 30, 31 ; v. Anneville. Dangoville, v. Angoville. Dauxes (Guille), 41 . Deaune, v. Aune. Deauneville, v. Dauneville. De la Riviere, v. Riviere. Dcfeyne (Denis), bourges de Perreis, 51, 53, 55, 58. DeCplains (Jehan), 12, 13. Dcfpreys (Perrin), 28. Dcftaville, v. Eftaville. Doudcman (Guille), 35. Duguefclin, p. Guefclin. Dune (Jouhan de la), 31. (Thomafll-t de la), 69. Dunes (Cochon le), 10. (Colin \c),filzau Cochon, 10. (Robin le), filz Perrin, 10 Durcnie (Thomas), 42. Dyanne (Ricart), 54, 55. Enguelicr ou Engucllicr (Aubin), 28. (Guilleme), 5, 28, 66. (Guillot), 69. (Ricart), 5, 27, 28. Eouf (MeJIre Guille), 28. (Jehan), 27. Ernaud (Jehan), jure, 62. (Thomas), 66. Efnault (Raoul), 29. (Thomas), 29. Efpicier, v. Lefpicier. Efpaulles, v. Aux Efpaulles. Eftaville, teneurs du franc fieu cP, 16. , prevoft d', 16, 19. , feigneur d', v. Fortefcu. Eftienne (Guille ou Guillot), 66, 69. Eftuquebonncl, v. Lefpiffier. Efuant (Thomas), 28, 29. Fae (Thomas le), 66. Famet (Jehan), jure, 62. Feron (Pierres), procureur de Mons. de la Riviere, 62 — 64. Fevre ou Feivre (Ricart le), 3, 4, 10 — 12. Feyvre (Guillem ou Guillaume le), 45, 48, 49. (Guillot le), 52, 54, 56. Ffraey (Jehan le), 19, Fiquet (Colin), 66. (Ricart), 7, 30. Fontaine (Guilleme ou Guillaume de la), 2, 4, 5, II, 13, 14, 22. (Henri de la), 2. Fontaines (Mons. Michel des), Seign. de Pretot, 51. Fonteney (Mons. Michel de), chev., 43. Fortefcu (Guilleme), 66. (G[uillaume '?]),Jignature, 70. (Jehan), efcuier, Seign. de Mons, 5, 12, 13, 14, 26, 31, 32, 51, (Hubertville), 61, (Buiffon), 65 (chartres), 25, 32, 65 ; v. Hommet. (Pierre), 15. (Richart), Seign. du Buiffon, I, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12, 61, (EJlaville), 16, 18, 19, 21, 23, 33, 60, (Fran- quetot), 34, 39, 41, 43, 56, 57, 59, 60, (Hubert- ville), 61 (chartre). Fortin (Denis), 5 1 . Fouques (Jehan), prefire, tabellion, 38, 43, 50, 56 — 58. Franco's (Guille le), 37. (Jehan le), 40. Frances (Guilleme le), 35 (Jehan le), 39, 49, 52. (Jouhan le), 52, 53. (Perrin le), 52. (Seveftre le), 47. France/. (Guille le), 52. Franchois (Colin le), 15. (Guilleme le), 35. 74 Index o Franchois (Maffieu le), 10. Franches (Jehan le), 38. (Maffieu le), 4. Franquetot, Seigneur de, v. Fortefcu (Richart). , Senefchal de, v. Barbey. Frefne, le Priour du, 59. Furon (— ), 37. Gaillart, v. Breton. Gaingne (Vincent), d'EJiaville, 14. Gautier (Lauriens), 31. Gautre (Laurent), 69. Gieffroy (Jouhan), 4. Gillebert (Henricus), 24. Godeffroy (Perree), 31. (Rogier), 31. Godes (Thomas le), clerc, tabellion, 32. Golleville, heraut de, v. Neir. Granches ou Grances (Pierres des), 55, 58. Grant (Pierre le), 48 ; v. Magnus. Greute (Guilleme), 10. Grout (Guillot), 56. Grufie (Jehan), 35. Guedon (Thomas), 16. Guendon (Jehan), 28. Gueront (Joret de), 40. Guefclin (Mons. Michel le Baftart du), 60. Guefdon ( — ), 17. (Perrin), dit le Priour de Blanqueland, 23. (Thomas), 16. Guefhet (Jehan), 3, 4, 5, 11. Guiart (Perrin), 40. Guichart (Perrin), 20, 23. Guiff' (Jehan), 1 1. Guille (Jehan), 47, 55, 57. (Perres), 37. (Perrin), 42. Guillem, le cuifenier (?), 54. Guillem (Grant), 51. (Jehan), 47, 53, 54. (Oliveret), 54. Guilles (Jehan), 42. Guifle (Jehan), 36, 40, 43, 44, 45, 46,48—51, 54— 56. (Oliveret), 54. (Olivier), 37, 44, 45, 46, 49—51, 55, 56. (Philipe), 35. (Phillote), 38. (Pierres), 40, 43, 44, 47, 50. Haellebel (Guillem), 40. 'erjons. Haies (Eftie des), 45. Hais (Colin), clerc, tabellion, 65. (Colin), 66, 69. (Jaquet), 39, 40. (Phillote), tabellion, 57, 58. Hamel (Colin du), 41, 42, 58, 66. (Guille du), 16. 1 (Michel de), 51. Hamelin (Perrin), 66. (Richart), 6, 7, 8, 10. Happelin (Eftie), 5. (Pierres), 10. Hauchemail (Michel), 29. (Ricart), 17, 19. Haule ou Haulle (Guichart de la), 18, 20, 21, 22. Hauville (Jehan de), 18. (Jehennet de), 66. Hays (Perrin), 30, 31. Heauville (Jehan de), 21. Hebert ou Herbert (Benet ou Beneft), 40, 41, 46. 48, 57- (Guille), 48. (Jehan), 37, 38. (Perrin), 38. Henry, du douyt de S. Co/me du Mont, 15. Herbert, v. Hebert. Herenge (Guillem), 17. Herengier (Guilleme), 22. Hergues (Symon), 28, 29. Heribel (Michel le), 28. (Perrin le), 66, 69. Hermeis (les), 8. Hermey (Guilleme), 6. (Jehan), 7, 10. Herubel (Guille le), 30. (Raoul le), 31. Hervie (Jehan), 6. Hervieu (Guille), 62. ■ (Raoul), 5, 6, 7—9, 10, 12. (Robin), 9. Heulier (la croute), 70. Hezart (Jehan), 45. Hoeville (Perres), 23. Hommet (Guillete ou Guillemete du), fceur de Jehan du Hommet, femme de Jehan Fortefcu, 33, 61. (Mons. Jehan du), Chev. Seigneur de la Varan- guire, 33, 61. (Katherine du), femme de Drouet du Buiffon, 67, 68. Hotof (Alis de), 48. Houchart (Henry), 16, 19. 1 Inde, Houel (Colin), 49, 54. Hubert (Ricart de la?), 14; v. Viex. Jamet (Colin), 20. (Colin), jure, 62. (Thomas), 14. Jehan, le prejtre, 47. (Phelippe), 39, 49, 50. (Phillot), 40. Jobelin (Sanfon), 13, 17, 21. Jolif (Thomas le), 36, 40, 43, 45, 46, 50, 51, 55. Jolis (Robin le), 22, 23. (Thomas le), 50, 51, 53, 55. Jouen (Philippe), 45. Jouhan, le prejtre, 45, 47. (Philippe), 37, 41, 48. Johan ou Jouhan (Phillot), 34, 36, 54. Lacville (Pierres), 12. Lamaire (Colin de), 4, 10. Lapoftore, ou Apoftore (Jehan), 49. (Perrin), 43, 49, 52, 53, 54. (Pierres), 47 ; v. Paftore. Laune, Sire de, v. Briqueville. Leclerc, v. Clerc. Lecomte (Guille), 66. Lecoq, v. Coq. Lefevre, v. Fcvre. Lcleduit (Jehan), 56. Lemiere, v. Miere. Lemonier ou Lemonnier, v. Monnier. Lcmor (Jouhan ou Jehan), 14, 66, 69. (Ph — ),jure, 62. (Robert), 7. (Robin), 9, 66, 69. Le Pannier, v. Pannier. Leroy (Thomas), 20. (Thomas), jure, 62. Lefoc, v. Soc. Lefpicier ( — ), 16. (Colin), 18, 19 — 21. (Jouhan), 20, 21. v. Manfel, Lcfpiffier (Perrin), dit Eftuquebonnel, 12. Leluour, v. Suour. Lefville (Maflieu de), 5. Lilier (Pierres), 66. Limozc (Francois de), chev. gouverneur [de ....?], 64. Lou (Henry le), 30. of Per Jons , Lours (Martin), Viconte de Carentan, 65, 68, 69. I Lulier (Perrin), 69. Lurier, (Colin), jure, 62. (Perrin), jure, 62. Mabire (Jehan), prejtre, garde du feel de S. Sauveur le Viconte, 32. Mach' (Guillem), 43, 44. Magnus (Rogerus), 24. Maillart (Perrin), 2, 13, 20, 28. (Perrin), d'EJiaville, 23. (Perrin), jure, 62. Maire (Colin de la), v. Lamaire. Malofel (Guillem), 66. Manfel ou Mancel (Colin), dit Lefpicier, 19, 23, 62, 66. (Raoul), 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. 21, 23, 69. (Simon), 19. (Thomaffe), 16. Manflel (Guillielmus), 24. (Rogerus), 24. Marchant (Guille le), 66. (Jehennet le), 20. Marefchal (Guillem le), 47, 56. (dan Jehan le), 37. (Jouhanne le), 56. (Perres le), 40, 42, 45. (Perrin le), 42, 44, 46—50. (Pierres le), 47, 48, 58. (Ricart le), 40, 47. (Thomas le), 38. Marefquier (Colin), 37. (Damien), 35, 49, 5 1 Mareft (Michael du), garde du feel de Carentan, 69. Marquant (Aubert le), 30. (Guille le), 30, 69. (Perrin le), 8. Marrignie (Pierre de), clerc, tabellion, 25. Martin, la jille, 38, 39. Maflieu, filz Auboulenc, 3. Maflure, (Crefpin de la.), 70. Mathieu (Guillem), 49, 51, 55, 57. (Guillot), 56. Mauchiz (Jehan), 66. Mauclus (Jorct), 23. Mauduit (Colin), 11, 16, 17, 22. (Colette ou Collete) 17, 22. (Guillem), 5. Maugre, v. Aune. Menart ( — ), 31. 7 6 Index of Per Jons. Menart (Thomas), 19, 20. Michel (Mons.), le Baftart du Guefclin, 60. Miere (Guillem le), 44, 46, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54- Monafteriis (Guillielmus de), v. Moftiers. Monnier (Guilleme le), 36, 49. Monnier ou Mounier (Raoul le), 36, 42, 44, 45. Mons (Lucia de), 24. (Raoul de), efcuier, chartre a, 24. , Seigneur de, v. Fortefcu. Montquoq, Seigneur de, 6. Morant ou Mourant (Ricart), 3, 4, 11. Moftiers (Mons. Guillem des), cbev., chartre de, 24. (Perrin des), 14. (Pierres des), 13. Mouchel (dan Robert du), prejlre, 26, 27. Mourant, v. Morant. Naguet (Ricart), 43. Navarre, le Roy de, 61. Neele (Jehan de), 65, 69. Nehou, bailli de, v. Varennez. Neir (Girot le), dit le Perche, heraut de S. Martin de Golleville, 31, 32 (chartres). Noel (Guillot), 15. ' (Michiel), 15. (Perrin), 5. Orenge (Perrin), 36. Orliens, Madame la Ducheffe d', Lettres, 25. Oiber (Perres), 26, 27. (Perrin), 30. (Pierres), I, 2, 3, 5—9. (Pierres), tabellion, 14, 15. Ouvris (Petrus), 24. (Sanfon), 13, 24. Paien (Perrin), de Brucheville, 69. Pallier ou Paillier (Guillot le), 4, 5. (Michel le), 4, 5. (Michelet le), 1 1. (Perrin le), 4, 31. (Perrinet le), 3, 4, 10, 1 1, 12, ■ (Pierre le), 4, 10. (Robert le), 24. (Thomas le), 3, 4, 10—13. (Thomas le), tabellion, 69. (Thomafiet le), 24. Palliere ou Pailliere (Jehenne la), 5. (Marion la), 31. Pain (Colin), 16, 19. Pannier (Richart le), 1. Paftore ( — la), 43. Paftore (Jehan le), 35, 54. Paftore ou Paftoere (Perrin la), 44, 54. (Thomas la), 35. Penant (Thomas), efcuier, 4, 1 5, 26. Pepin (Ricart), 43, 50. Perche (le), v. Neir. Perdriour (Thomas le), 53. Periant (Thomas), 27. Petite (Phillot le), 23. Petit (Robert le), 9, 12. (Rogier), 66. Petitvalet (Guille), dit Roufet, 66. (Rogier), 69. Petitvallet (Guilleme), 13. (Phillot), 14. Petitvarlet (Phillot), jure, 62. Piart (Robin le), 66. Pierres (Thomas), Viconte de Carentan, 58. Pigaut (Jehenet le), 51. Pigier (Jehan), 21. Piquet ou Piquot (Jehan), 12, 30. Piron (Perrin de), 29. Plains (Jehan des), efcuier, 12, 13. Pons (Robin des), efcuier, 13, 14, 23. Pontoife, bailli de, v. Coudran. Poftoire (Jehan la), 44, 49. Poftore, v. Lapoftore et Paftore. Poullart ( — le), 5. Prefcot ou Preftot (Colin de), 27. (Herbert de), de la Dune, 66, 69. Preftre (Jouhan le), 45, 47. Pretot, Seigneur de, v. Fontaines. Prevoft (— ), 43. (Girart le), 58. (Jehan le), 36, 48, 50, 51. (Thomas le), 35, 36, 41, 44, 48, 53. Priour (Jehan le), 37. Proudomme (Robert \t),jure, 62. Queminant (Thomas le), 44, 46, 54, 55. Quefnet (Jehan), 3, 1 1 . Quetreville, les teneurs de, 34. Quetreville ou Quetrevilles (Denis le), 55, 59. (Guillem le), 36. (Jehan le), 45. (Ricart le), 44, 45, 54, 55, 59. (Thomas le), 50, 54. Rambaut ou Rannbaut (Guille ou Guillaume), 38, 42, 43- Regnaut (Jehan), 43, 45, 46, 57- Index of Perfons. 77 Renaut (Jouhan), 46, 55. Renouf (Guillem), 41. (Johanne), 8. Rider (Dan), 38. Riquier (Jehan), 28. (Thomas), 29. Riviere (Mons. de la) Seign. de S. Sauveur le Viconte, 61,62; v. Feron. Robelin (Sanfon), 21. Robert ou Robart (Guillaume), 45, 49, 51, 54, 55. (Guillot), 42. Robice (Thomas), 65, 69. Robiche (Colin), 17, 18. Rochet (Robin), 15. Rogier (Dan), 27, 28. Roquier (Thomas du), efcuier, 56. Role (Jehan la), 45. Roufet, v. Petitvalet. Rouffelin (Perrin), 13, 19, 20, 21. (Perrin), le jeune, 14. (Sanfon), 18, 20. Roux (Jouhan le), 28. Rouze (Ricart la), 52. Sablon, v. Canne (Perrin la). Sainte Marie du Mont, teneurs du franc fieu en, lb, 26. Saint Martin (Guille de), 16. (Jehenne de), 16, 18. (Jehennete de), 18. Saint Mor, les Freres de, 30. Saint Nicholas, la Confrairie de, 27. Saint Sauveur Lendelin, garde du feel de, v. Coudran. Le Viconte, Seigneur de, v. Riviere. , bailli de, v. Varcnnez. , garde du feel de, v. Mabire. Sauvegrain (Colin), 13, 21. (Robin), 18. Sebire (Colin), 12, 13, 17. , d'EJlaville, 23. Scgur, v. Boi'cage. , i'. Vincent. Sergant (Jehan le), 69. Seync (Denis de), v. Defeyne. Sifroy (Jaquet), 28. (Jehan), 66. Soc ou Sot (Jehan le), 47, 48. (Jouhan le), 46, 48. (Perret le), 36. (Thomas le), 35, 37, 53. Suour (Guillem ou Guilleme le), 13, 44, \$, 46, 50. 51, 52, 53, 54, 55- (Guillot le), 13. (Jehan le), 45, 55- (Jouhan le), 51, $2. (Phillot le), 55. Taillefer (Robert), 52, 53. Tieuclin, v. Bermont. Trefgos (Ricart de), 58. Troil'mons (Hubert de), 14. (Jehenne de), 14. Trubleville (Raoul), 6, 8, 10. Valoignes, le Viconte de, 61. Vanier (Hebert le), 4, II. Vaquelin (Laurence), 14. (Ricart), 14. Varanguire, Seigneur de la, v. Hommet. Varennez (Mahie de), bailli de S. Sauveur le -Viconte et Nehou, 61 (jugement par). Varin (Jehan), 41, 42. (Marion), 41, 42. (Thomas), 55, 59. Vafle (Thomas), 35. Vauvonnoifel (Guillaume), premier prefident, 64. (Guillaume), fenefchal, 12. (Louis de), 64. (Xavier), 70. Vcnnier (Hebert le), 3. Vibet (Robin), de Carentan, 3, 1 1 . Viex (Ricart de), d'Audonville la Hubert, (!) 14. Vincent (Perrin), dit Segur, 4, II. Viudel ou Vuidel (Ricart le), 3, 5, II, 27. Von (Perrin), efcuier, 55. (Pierres), 58. INDEX OF PLACES. Anquetil, 34. Appeville (Veglife d'), 43, 5 1 . Aratiere (clos de V), 45. Arbreaux (aux), 30, 31. Aubec (la baronie d'), 61. Aufor, v. Sor. Aufouf, v. Ofouf. Barbey (la croix), 35, 37, 39, 40. Baupte, 50, 51, 52, 54. Baupteiz (les teneurs en), 34. Beauville ou Bellavallis, 24. Beques, ou Befques (es), 19, 20. Bertot (au), 54 Beufeville, 49, 53, 55, Biflon, 63. Blanquelande (Vabbe de), 22. Blouville, 19, 44. Bonuche, 37. Bougre, 29. Boulloin, 41 . Bourde (la), 30. Bourdes, 11, 21, 22, 27. Bourdon, 55. Bourgues, 39. Boutemarefc, 18. Bouteville, 12, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21. Brears, 21. Brucheville, 14, 15, 25, 26, 60, 61, 66, 69. Bruiere (la), 4, 5. Buiflbn, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 14, 22, 61, 62, 65, 69. Camp (le), 43. Canee (/ 10. Cofinet (tenementum diclum), 24. Coftentin, 1, 6. Couftancia, 24. Crefpin, 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 26, 27, 28. Crique (la), 31. Croutelles, 34, 35, 37. Dallibuc, 10. Danoudire (la), 52, 53, 54. Dappeville, v. Appeville. Daucbec, v. Aubec Deftaville, v. Eftaville. Deftoquebulc, v. Kftoquebule. Deftoqueville, v. Eftoqueville. Dumarefc (la riviere), 53 — 55. Dune (la), 31. Eoufe, Eoufes, 27, 37. Ereche, v. Maire. Eftaville [Deftaville], 4, 11 — 14, 16. 17, 18, 19, 20 — 24, 60. Eftoquebule, 66. Eftoqueville, 4, 1 2, 66. Faucenes, 36. Feivre ou Fevre, 5, 1 1 . Fifet (la maifon), 1 7. Fontaine S. Martin, 12, 19. Fontenes, 2—5, 10, 1 1, 37, 38. Fournicr, 6 — 10. Fourqucs, r. Mont des Fourques. Franquetot, 33— 39, 40—44. 46—47- 5°, 5', 53, 55—58, 60. Franqueville, 12, 14, 22. Gallart, 35, 50. Gargane, v. Mont de Gargane. Goberdire, 56. Goderel, 37, 45, 59. 1 1 8o Index of Places. Golobiere, v. Maire. Granche (la), 58. Grignoir, 33. Grife Pierre (la), 20. Guefnet, 3. Guevemare, 18, 20. Guillebert, 41. Guillette, 30. Haele, Haelle, ou Helle, 46, 50, 53, 56. Haie Dupuis, 52, 53, 55. Hais, 28. Hamel, 9, 18, 29. Herichies, 15. Hermeis, Hermeys ou Herveys, 7, 8. Heulier, 2, 70. Hezetes, 41. Hieville, 13, 18, 19, 21, 26, 27. Hogue ou Hougue, 39, 41, 56. Holledic, I, 2, 10, 13. Homme, 36—42, 45—47, So, Si, S3- Hommet, 35. Hommoife ou Hommefe, 12, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20. Hubertville, 33, 61. Jouhan, 58. Kaiantillie, v. Carantilli. La Bourde, v. Bourde. La Dune, v. Dune. La Fontaine, 20. La Hogue, 35. Lalonde ou Lalande, 15, 18, 19, 21. Landes (les), 22. Laratiere, v. Aratiere. Lavine terre, I. la vive terre. Lee (riviere), 37 — 40. Leffrey, 35. LeflTey (Vabbe de), 54. Liegart, v. Maire Liegart. Lonmel ou Lommel, 35. Longbouel, 49. Lorey, 28, 29. Lormal, 20, 22. Lourme (de Franquetot), 40. Luminaire, 16, 19. Magneville ou Mangneville, 3, 4, 10, 11. Maignier ou Maiguier, 18, 21. Maillart (la maifon), 2. Maire Ereche (la), 15. Maire du Golobiere, 31. Maire Liegart, 1 7, 20, 23. Maire es Vis, 13, 17, 18. Manfeaux, 12. Mauvoifin, 43, 44. Miart, 30. Mieres, 49. Mollans ou Mollaus (es), 12, 13. Mons, 26, 27, 31, 60. Monquoq, 7. Mont des Fourques, 42, 46, 54. Mont de Gargane, 51. Montebourg (Vabbe de), 14. Mont Mirel, 41, 42. Moranderie ou Morandiere, 3, 11. Morllanc, 17. Neauhou ou Nehou, 21, 62. Normendie (aides de), 39, 43, 51, 52, 56. Notre Dame (au prey), 51, 54. Nourry, 18 — 21. Ormal, 20, 22. Ofber, 1, 2, 6, 7. Ofouf, 50, 51, 53—55; V. Souf. Ourme (de Franquetot), 40. Pailliers ou Paillies, 3, 4, IO — 12, 23, 24. Peliquet, 30. Perrelle (la), 13. Petis, 6, 9, 1 2. Pierre (la), 20, 37, 38, 41, 48, 56. (de Franquetot), 38, 40, 43, 57. Pipet, Pippet ou Piquet, (lafoffe), 37, 41, 42, 48, 58. Piquot, 4. Planque Cannin, 1, 2, 6. Planque Morain, 27. PlefTeiz ou Plemes, 34, 56 — 58. Ponchel, 41 , 42. Pontannin, 37, 41, 44, 45, 47, 49, 50, 52—55- Porrie (la fontaine), 47. Potiers, 41, 55, 58. Poubel, le jieu, 6. Pouppeville, 6 — 9. Pouquefbntaine, 13, 19. Preaux, 50. Quetreville, 34, 38, 54, 57, 60. Rannbaut ou Rambaut, 39, 41, 42. Index of Places. Repentigny, 13, 16, 20. Riquies (douaire des), 31. Rondeaux, 19. Saint Cofme du Mont, 1 5. Saint Germain de Tournebec, 33, 61. Sainte Marie du Mont, 1 — 4, 10 — 13,16, 19, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27, 31, 60—62, 65—67, 69. Saint Pierre, 44, 53. Saint Sauveur Lendelin, 25, 31. Saint Sauveur le Viconte, 26, 61, 62, 65. Sancta Maria Ecclefia (S. Mere Eglife), 24. Saufuire (la maire), 42. Sauxmire (la maire), 36. Saixonnicr (la maire), 35, 43, 44, 47. Senefchal (au), 6 — 10, 12. Sor (Mar au), 43, 58. Souf (au), 43, 44, 46 ; v. Ofouf. Suours, en Bougon, 18. Temple (le jieu du), 1. Tculles, 36. Thomas (en camp), 45 — 51. Tollevaft, 15, 22, 23, 65, 66. Tombe (moulin de), 51, 52, 54. Tonnee (moulin de), 2, 26, 27, 31, 32 (vente). Tournebuc, 33, 61. Traveflain, 52. Troucele, 58. Vaindic, 18. Vallec, 36, 38, 41. Vallee ou Valee (la), 44—48, 50, 51, 54, 55- Vallez, 49. Venid (le), 38, 58. Varon (lefieu), 5, 6, 8, 12. Vautierbu, 2 1 . Vernon (Vaide de), 2 1 . Veroil, 6, 7, 9. Vey, 27, 28, 31. Viel, 30. Vitllez Carrieres, 57 ; v. Carrieres. Vier Aveneuz, 35. Vigier, 56. Vis (maire es), 13, 17, 18. Voie Juree, 15, 31. Voiete (la), 10. Vuidefont (I'fglife de S. Martin de), 54. Vurguel, 36. GLOSSARY Achateur. Qui achete. Acouftumier, couftumier. Habitue - , qui a la coutume. Agrey. A gre\ Aguillon. Une pointe. Aidier. Aider, fervir. Aie, aye. Aide. Aille. Cote, bord, extremite. Ainfne, efney. Aine, premier. Ainfneche, aainneefche, efneage, efneche. Droit d'ainefTe. Airont, arront. Auront. Aleroms. Cotenancies? Amcnifement, amenuifement. Diminution, fouftrac- tion. Aoue, oue. Oie. Aplain. Clairement, evidemmcnt. Aportant, portant. Portion, la portion it chacun. Appareir, apperoir, apparer. Paroitre, fe faire voir. Aprcndre. Apprendre, emporter. Arront, v. airont. As. Avec, ad. AfTeer, afTegier. Pofer, placer. AfTtrer. Affirmer. Afiiete. Abandon de terres, dont le produit cgale les arrerages d'une rente de laquelle on ^tait charge ; afhgnation de dot. Affifes. Droits que levaient les feigneurs fur les betes de trait ; plaids que des juges fuperieurs allaient tenir. Aulant. Allant. Auxi. Auffi. Aveine, avenies, avenes. Avoines. Ay. Ai. Baillie. Baile, bailie, tutelle. Baillier, bailler. Prendre ; tenir en fon pouvoir,donner. Barat. Embarras, empechement. Beques. Petits cours d'eau ; nom de lieu. Bernaige, bled bernage. Ble mcflin ou moulturc ; melange de l'orge, feigle et ble\ Befque. Une beche. Bieu. Bief ; la retenue d'eau du moulin. Bocl (longs bocl). Cour ou mafure. BoiiTel. Boiffeau, mefure. Bonnee, bonnez. Bornee, limite. Boque, bocque. Petite elevation, eminence. Bruiere. Bruyere, broulTaille. Bus, but. Bout. Butent. Abuttent. Butiere. Canal, conduit, ouverture. Buy. Vide, efpace vide ; v. Bieu. Cabos, caboz, cabat. Mefure pour le ble. Caiche. Petit chemin. Camps. Champs. Candelour. Chandclour ; la fete de la Purification de la Sainte-Vierge. Caneviere. Cheneviere, lieu rempli de rofeaux. Carue. Charrue. Cas. Nom de lieu ! Cauchic, caucee. ChauflTee, chemin. Ctrnot, cernot de mer. Iifpece de poifTon (v. " La nature des poifTons," par P. Belon du Mans, 1555 ; fous le mot " 136. B. (R.), letter from, to " Mafter Stock," 1642, 32. Bacon (Sir Anthony), correfpondence with Sir John Fortefcue of Salden, 345, 346; letters to, from Francis Bacon, 346. (Francis), letters to Sir A. Bacon, 346. (Sir Nathaniel), work dedicated to, 436. Bale, Bijhofr; record by, of Sir John Fortefcue, 95. Ballina, in Ireland ; account of its capture, 221. Baluze Collection ; letters from, 69. Barnet, co. Herts. ; notice of the battle of, 83. Bartond (Elizabeth), wife to Peter Fortefcue, 29, 42. Beauchamp (Elizabeth), wife to William Fortefcue, of Wimftone, 1394, 5; particulars of her inheri- tance, 6. (Joan), particulars of her inheritance, 6. Beaugendre : one of the chief families at S. Marie du Mont, 1380, 473. Beaumont (Sir John), marr. Elizabeth Fortefcue, circ. 1600, 436 ; lines prefixed to his "Poems," 437. Bedfordfhire ; Fortefcue lands in, 242, 249. Bellingham (Elizabeth), wife to Rev. John Fortefcue, 212. Berkfhire ; Fortefcue eftates in, 425, 442. Bierton, co. Bucks. ; manor purchafed by Edmund Fortefcue, 1670, 139. Bifhops-Hatfield, co. Herts.; Sir John Fortefcue buried at, 1500, 246; expenfes of a chapel there, 285 : v. Hatfield Houfe. Blomefield (F.), notice of Maud Fortefcue by, 54. Bluet (Sir Walter), grant from, 5. Boafe (Rev. C. W.), extracts from his " Regiftrum Coll. Exon." 424, note. Bocking (T — ), notice by, of Chancellor Fortefcue [1450-54], 59- Boconnoc, co. Cornw. ; Fortefcue eftates at, 137. Bodenham (Frances), wife to Charles Fortefcue, of Bofworth, 419. Bodleian Library, at Oxford; Lift of books pre- fented to, by Sir John Fortefcue, of Salden, 41 1. Bodley (Sir Thomas), notices of Sir John Fortefcue in his letters, 373. Boleyn, Family of; how related to the Fortefcues, 239, 343- Boleyn (Alice), lft wife to Sir John Fortefcue, of Punfbourne, 239. (Anne), refutation of fcandal reflecting, 332. Bonvouloir, Comte de ; letter from, respecting the Fortefcues of Normandy, 452. Bofcawen (Bridget), wife to Hugh Fortefcue, of Filleigh, 132. Bofworth-Hall, alias Hufband's-Bofworth, co. Leic; inherited by William Fortefcue, and fubfequently by William Fortefcue-Turville, 419; portrait of Chancellor Fortefcue at, 94. Bountle (Florence), wife to Thomas Fortefcue, 7. Bourchier (Henry), Earl of Effex ; letter to, from Sir Adrian Fortefcue, 270. Bowcombe, /. of Wight; refidence of Sir Faithful Fortefcue, 197 ; inventory of goods at, 1666, 23 1. Bozun (Joan), lft wife to Sir Henry Fortefcue, L.C.J, of Ireland, 48. Bradford, co. Wilts.; grant of lands in, 1456, 53. Braune (Katharine), wife to William Fortefcue, 23. (Theodofia), wife to John Fortefcue, 23 ; iflue, ib. Breda, in Holland; vifited by Sir Faithful Fortefcue, 1660, 183. Brereton (Sir Edward), notice of Dromifkin by, 171. Brickdale (John), took the name of Fortefcue, 1861, 168 : v. Fortefcue-Brickdale. Bridgetown, co. Warwick ; bequeathed to Francis Fortefcue, 23. Brighlley, co. Devon; feat of the Giffard family, 148; ftate of the manfion, ib. Brightwell-Baldwin, co. Oxon ; the burial-place of Lady Anne Fortefcue, 258. Brixton, co. Devon ; a grove there, planted by Edward Fortefcue, 1677, 13 ; his bequeft to the poor at, 12. Bromley (Sir Thomas), Ld. Chancellor ; marr. Eliza- beth Fortefcue, 279. Brookelyn ( — ), lft wife to Sir Edward Fortefcue, 420. Bryan (Sir Francis), marr. Philippa, wid. of Sir John Fortefcue, " of Herts," 249. Buckhurft, Lord; v. Sackville. Buckinghamshire ; Fortefcue lands in, 137, 139, 142, 242, 255, 313, 326, 368, 379, 412, 421. General Index. Buckland-Filleigh, co. Devon; ancient feat of the Fortefcues, 5, 127; defcription of, 160; defcent of the manor, 95, 1 26 ; inherited by Mary Spooner, 163; fold by John Inglett-Fortefcue, 1785, 14; view of the church, 149; monuments, 150, 151, and memorial window at, 198. v. Fortefcues of Buckland-Filleigh. BuifTon, in Normandy ; Fortefcues of, 472. Bui lock, Family of; po{TeftedFalkborneManor,250,2,5l. Burg (Sir John), died feized of Ebrington, 1 47 1-2, 59, 67. Burleigh. Lord, v. Cecil (William). Butler (James), 5th Earl of Ormond ; letters to, from Sir John Fortefcue, 71 ; Queen Margaret, 73 ; and Edward, Pr. of Wales, 75. (James), Marquefi of Ormond ; letters to, from Thomas Salvin (and others), 1 64 1 , 1 83 ; Charles I., 1643, 188 ; and Sir Faithful Fortefcue, 1643, 1647, 1 88, 190; letters from, to General Fairfax, 1647, 191 ; and the Lds. of the Committee, 192 ; Com- miffions from, to William and Faithful Fortefcue, 149. (Lady Louifa Grace Wandesforde), 3rc? dau. of James, Marq. of Ormond ; wife to Thomas, Lord Clermont, 1840, 208. Byfham Priory, co. Bucks. ; burial-place of Lady Anne Fortefcue, 257. Byworth, co. Bedf. ; inquifition of the manor, 253. Caesar (D.), letters to Sir John Fortefcue, of Salden, 328, 329. (Sir Julius), letters to, from Sir John Fortefcue, of Salden, 369, 370. Calthorpe (Lady Elizabeth), dau. of Sir Miles Staple- ton ; 2nd wife to Sir John Fortefcue, of Punfborne, 244 ; remarr. to Sir Edw. Howard, 246. Cambridgefhire ; Fortefcue lands in, 242, 249. Cambridge, town of; Sir John Fortefcue's patent as Recorder of, 414. Camden (William), notice by, of the family of Boleyn, 239 ; figures from his Roll ofQ. Elizabeth's funeral, 358. Campbell, Lord; obfervations on Sir John Fortefcue, 54, 64, 97- Campbell (Anne), wife to Matthew, 2nd Lord Fortef- cue, 1752, 136. Campden, co. Glouc. ; grant of lands in, 16. Carew (Sir George), letters to, from Sir John Fortefcue, of Salden, 1601-2, 409, 410. Carifbrookc, /. of Wight ; view of the church, 197 ; memorial to Sir Faithful Fortefcue at, ib. Carlingford, Lord, v. Fortefcue (Chichefter Samuel). Carnarvon Caftle ; Sir Faithful Fortefcue imprifoned in, 1648, 193. Carrickfergus, alias Knockfergus, in Ireland ; Sir Faithful Fortefcue, Conftable, 1606, 169; Sir Thomas Fortefcue, Governor, 1663, 201, 225. Cary (Elizabeth), 2nd wife to Sir Thomas Fortefcue, 202. Caftle Hill, co. Devon ; v. Filleigh. Cecil (Sir Robert), Baron Cecil, and VifSi. Cranborne, aftds. E. of Salifbury ; correfpondence with Sir John Fortefcue, of Salden, 1593-1608, 354, 389- 406 ; with Sir Francis Fortefcue, 1608, 417. (William), Lord Burleigh ; correfpondence with Sir John Fortefcue, of Salden, 333, 383, 385. " Centurion " (The) ; notice of Capt. Fortefcue's voyage round the world in, 1740, 16, 23. Chamberlain (John), notice by, of Sir John Fortefcue, of Salden, 37 1. Champernoun (Elizabeth), wife to William Fortefcue, of Prutefton, 9. (Mary), wife to Edmund Fortefcue, of Fallapit, 29 ; infcription to, in Allington Church, 16. (Thomas), grant from, 5. Charles I. ; commiffion to Chichefter Fortefcue, in a letter to James, Marq. of Ormond, 1643, 188. Charles II.; lift of his followers, 1651, 193; war- rants from, to reftore Sir Faithful Fortefcue to office, 194-196; petition to, from the fame, 223- 225 ; appointment by, of Sir Thomas Fortefcue as Governor of Knockfergus, 1664, 225. Charles, Duke of Lorraine ; appoints Ant. Fortefcue his " Refident ", 429 ; favours the caufe of Charles I., ib. ; correfpondence with Parliament, 1645, 432, 433- Charleton (Sir Rich.), defcent of his lands to Henry Fortefcue, of Falkborne, 249, 250, 253. Charlton Manor, co. Kent ; poftefted by Thomas Fortefcue, of Donnington, 425. " Chartrier " of Richart Fortefcu, notice of, 47 1, 472, 473, 496. Chauncellor (Thomas), deed relating to, 1453, 478. Chichefter (Sir Arthur), \Jl Lord; letter to Sec. Conway, 173; account of, by Sir Faithful Fort- efcue, 175; Sir John Fortefcue's error refpecling their relationfhip, 406 note. (Elizabeth), wife to Hugh Fortefcue, of Filleigh, 129. (Sufannah), 2nd wife to John Fortefcue, of Buck. -Filleigh, 150, 169. General Index. Chudleigh (Sir George), marr. Elizabeth Fortefcue, 132. Church-Lench, co. Wore; grant of lands at, 16. Civita Vecchia, /. of Malta ; defcription of a por- trait of Sir Adrian Fortefcue at, 273. Clermont-Lodge, co. Norf. ; mooting quarters of the E. of Clermont, 213, 214; View of, Gen. Index, 1. Clermont-Park, near Dromijkin ; feat of Thomas Fortefcue, 212, 216. Clermont, Earl ; v. Fortefcue (William Henry). Vifcount, v. Fortefcue (William Charles). Baron, v. Fortefcue (Thomas). Countefi, v. Murray (Frances). " Clermont," title of; why afTumed, 215. Clinton, Earl, v. Fortefcue (Hugh). "Cock-fighting, " letter on, by Sir Edmund Fortefcue, 42. Cockworthy or Keckworthy (Alice) : wife to John Fortefcue, of Spridlefton, 11. " Codex Cottonianus ; " prefented to Sir John Fort- efcue by Q. Elizabeth, 374. Coffin (Elizabeth), wife to Hugh Fortefcue, 13a Coke (Sir Edward), notice by, of Chancellor Fortefcue, 96. Cokefland, co. Devon ; grant of lands in, 5. Combe, in Holbeton, co. Devon; notices of, 128, 129. " Compofition Papers ; " particulars of the Fortefcues in, 12, 17, 30. " Conveyancer's Guide " (The), anecdotes from, 140. Conway, Mr. Secretary ; letters to, from Lord Chi- chefter, 173. Cookhill, co. Wore. ; burial-place of the Fortefcues for many generations, 23 ; fold by John Fortefcue, 16, 23; armour found at, 17: v. Fortefcues of Cookhill. Cookhill-Priory, co. Wore; grant of, 16, 22. Coombe-Florey, co. Som. ; pofTefTed by William Fort- efcue, of Prutefton, 10. Corbet (Robert), marr. Maud, dau. of Sir John Fort- efcue, 1455, 54 ; re-marr. to Lettice Shirewood, ib. Cornbury, co. Oxon ; vifited by James I., 368. Cornwall ; Fortefcue lands in, 9, 132, 134, 137, 236. Corfcombe, co. Som. ; manor, held by Bartholomew Fortefcue, 128; Fortefcue relics defcribed, 129; fold by Hugh Fortefcue, Earl Clinton, ib. Cotentin, in Normandy ; notice of the Fortefcues there, 47 1. CouTois, M.,notaire; letter to Ld. Clermont, 1867,477. Courtenay (Amy), 2nd wife to Sir Peter Fortefcue, 10. (Anne), wife to Richard Denzill, 126. (Sir Philip), grant to, 5. Cramezel (Philippe Em. de), marr. Louife de Fort- efcue, 1 244, 448. Cranborne, Vifcount ; v. Cecil (Sir Robert). Credan, co. Waterford ; part of the Aland Eftate, 140 : v. Fortefcues of Credan. Creffingham (Little), co. Norf; monument to E. of Clermont at, 2 13. Creft (Fortefcue), as borne by Guillaume Fortefcue, 462 ; difference in, and additions made to, 476. Darrell (Mary), 2nd wife to Henry Fortefcue, of Falk- borne, 249 ; her tomb in Falkborne church, 250. Dartmouth, co. Devon; Arms of Fortefcue in S. Sa- viour's Ch. at, 486. Dawfon-Damer (Georgina Augufta), wife to Hugh, 3rd Earl Fortefcue, 139. " Declaration on Writings out of Scotland," a trea- tife by Chanc. Fortefcue, 106-125; notices of, 79, 85, IOO (v. alfo firjt ed. of this " Hiftory" (1869), v. i. p. 523). " De Dominio Regali," notice of, 100 (v. alfo firjl ed. (1869), v. i. p. 449). Deer; notice of, at Exmoor, 137. " Defence of the Houfe of Lancafter," notices of, 86, 100. Delany, Mrs.; notice by, of Lady Clermont, 1773, 218. Delaporte (Anne), wife to Adam Fortefcue, 4. " De Laudibus Legum Angliae," notices of, 79, 96, 100; tranflated by Mr. Gregor, 142; the various editions, 487 (v. alfo firjl ed. of this "Hiftory" (1869), v. i. p. 333)- Delifte (Leopold), communication by, 1879,479; h' s account of the " Chartrier " of Richart Fortefcu, 496. " De Natura Legis Naturae," notices of, 79, 86, 99 (v. alfo firjl ed. of this " Hiftory" (1869), v. i. p. 65). Dennis (Agnes), wife to Henry Fortefcue, 151. Denzill (Richard), marr. Joan Weare and poffeffed Buckland-Filleigh, 126. (Richard), fon to preceding ; marr. Anne Cour- tenay, 1 26. Denzille or Deynlell (Elizabeth), wife to Martin Fort- efcue, 53 ; her defcent and poffeffions, 1 26. Devereux (Robert), Earl of Effex ; correfpondence with Sir John Fortefcue, of Salden, 342-344, 435 ; proceedings againft him, 352. Devonfhire ; name of Fortefcue exifting there lince the Conqueft, 2, 3 ; eftates in, 4-7, 12, 20, 27, 29, 43, 53, 60, 94, 126, 128, 129, 131, 135, 148, 163, 168, 235, 242. General Index. D'Ewes (Jane), wife to John Fortefcue, of Cookhill, 23 ; ob. 1674. (Sir Symonds), letters to, from Anthony Fort- efcue, 1644, 431, 432. "Dialogue between Faith and Underftanding," notice of, 100 (v. alfo firjl ed. of this " Hiftory " (1869), v. i. p. 483)- " Difference between Abfolute and Limited Mon- archy," notices of, 91, 141, 263. Donnington, co. Berks. ; refidence of Thomas Fortef- cue, 425. Dormer (Elizabeth), 2nd wife to Lord Fortefcue, of Credan, 1721, 142; ob. 1748, 143; her portrait in pofilffion of Lord Clermont, ib. Dorfetfhire ; Fortefcue eftates in, 5, 6. Douglas (Archibald), his character, 337 ; correfpon- dence with Sir John Fortefcue, of Salden, 337- 340, 386-389. Downing (Maria), wife to Francis Knottesford-Fort- efcue, 1805, 23. Dromifkin, co. Loutb ; the refidence of Sir Faithful Fortefcue, 171; branch founded by William Fort- efcue, 128. v. Fortefcues of Dromifkin. Dropmore, co. Bucks. ; inherited by Hon. George Matth. Fortefcue, 1864, 1 37- Du Bofc, M. ; memoranda furnifhed by, 453. Eager (Louifa Margaret), wife to Thomas Fortefcue, of Dromifkin, 1 859, 206. Ebrington, co. Glouc. ; purchafedby Chancellor Fort- efcue, 1457, 59; now the property of Earl Fort- efcue, 60; defcription and defcent, 91, 94, 95; monument to Chancellor Fortefcue at, 91. Edward IV. ; defeated Henry VI., 1 46 1 , 1464, 1470, 62, 68, 83 ; pafTed Acl of Attainder againft Chan- cellor Fortefcue, 1461, 66; reverfed the fame, •475, 89. Edward, Prince of Wales, Jon of Hen. VI. ; letter to the K. of Portugal, 69 ; letter to the E. of Ormond, 75- Eliot (Bridget), 1ft wife to Sir Peter Fortefcue, 10. Enfield, co. Midd. ; granted to Sir John Fortefcue, 242. EfTex, County of; Fortefcue eftates in, 143, 235, 242, 248, 249, 250, 413. EfTex, Karl of; v. Bourchier (Henry). , v. Devereux (Robert). Exeter, co. Devon ; difpute between the Mayor and the Bifhop, 57. Exmoor, co. Devon ; notice of the red deer there, 137. Faber (Walter), of Modbury ; grant of lands to, 4. Falkborne, co. Effex ; account of the Manor-houfe, 251 ; came to the Fortefcues of Punfborne, 248 ; chief refidence of the family, ib. ; purchafed by the family of Bullock, 1637, 250 ; tomb of Henry Fortefcue in the church, ib. v. Fortefcues of Falkborne. Fallapit or Valeput, co. Devon; defcent of, 48; in- herited by Mary Spooner, 163 ; paffed to Edmund Walls, Efq., 1 768, 42 ; view of the houfe, 28. v. Fortefcues of Fallapit. Fallapit ( — de), dau. of Nicholas de Fallapit; 2nd wife to Sir Henry Fortefcue, L.C.J, of Ireland, 48. Falwell or Fowell (Mabel), wife to William Fortef- cue, of Wimftone, 1394, 6. Fellowes (Lady Camilla Eleanor), wife to Dudley F. Fortefcue, 1852, 138. " Feriae Academicae," written by George Fortefcue, 436. Ferfcn, Count; anecdote of, 217. Fettiplace (Anthony), marr. Mary, fifter to Sir Adrian Fortefcue, 313. Figuerda (Pedro de), teftimony refpccling a portrait of Sir Adrian Fortefcue, 274, 276. Fillcigh or Caftle Hill, co. Devon ; defcent of, 94, 126; houfe defcribed, 135; name changed to Caftle Hill, ib. ; tomb of Richard Fortefcue (1 570) at, 129. v. Fortefcues of Fillcigh. Filleigh (Elizabeth de), feized of the eftates of Fil- leigh and Buckland F., 126; wife to William Weare, ib. Fleetwood (Sir William), circumftance of his return for Bucks., 365. Florence ; defcription of a portrait ofSir Adrian Fort- efcue at, 277. Ford (Dorothea), wife to Francis Fortefcue, 250. " Foreft " (The), or " Collection of Hiftories," tranf- lated by Thomas Fortefcue, 423. Fort Charles, v. Salcombe Caftle. Fortcfcue-Lock, at Fatbam ; when made, 219. Fortefcue-Manor, co. Antrim ; patent of, 171. Fortefcue, or Le Fort, Family of ; its Norman de- fcent, 448 ; origin of the name, 2 ; variations of fpelling, 483 ; Evidences in the " Bibl. Nationale,"at Paris, 456,479 : mifcellancous notices of, 474 ; pro- bable intercommunication with the Norman branch, 475 ; firft feated at Wimftone, co. Devon, 4 ; cldeft exifting line, 24 ; members who have ferved in Parliament, 498 ; " Proofs'' of its "nobility," 21, General Index. 22, 172, 469,470; eftates in Armagh, 208; Bedf. 242, 249; Bucks, 137,242,412; Camb., 242, 249; Cornw., 9, 137; Devon., 4, 6, 7, 43, 44, 50, 126, 242; Dors., 6; Down, 172; Eflex, 242, 248, 249; Glouc, 91, 278; Herts, 44, 249; Louth, 208 ; Northampt., 242 ; Som., 7, 242 ; Wilts., 131 ; Wore, 91. v. Arms ; Creft ; Monuments ; Mottoes ; Portraits ; Seals ; Standards. Fortefcues of Buckland-Filleigh, 148-168. of Caflle Hill, 126-147. of Cookhill, 1 5-26. of Credan, 139. of Dromifkin, 169-233. of Falkborne, 234-254. of Fallapit (lft line), 44-49. (2nd line), 27-43. of Filleigh or Caflle Hill, 1 26-147. of Normandy, 448-481. of Norreis, 44-49. of Penwarne, 132, 489. of Prutefton or Prefton, 9. of Punfborne, 234-254. of Ravenfdale, 169-233. of St. Marie du Mont, 47 1 . of Salden, 255-447. of Spridleftone, 1 1-14. of Stephenftown, 212. ofWheatley, 15-26. of Wimftone (elder line), 1-8. of Wood (lft line), 44-48. (2nd line), 9. Fortefcue (Sir Adam), of Wimjtone ; anceftor of the Englifh branch, 3 ; iflue, ib. ■ (Adam, 2nd), of Wimflone ; charter and feal, 1302, 4 ; iflue, ib. (Adam, 3rd), of Wimflone; marr. Anne De- laport, 4 ; charter and feal, iflue, ib. Fortefcue (Sir Adrian), born 1476, 255; marr. lft, Anne Stonor, ib. ; crd. Knight of the Bath, 1503, ib. ; accompanied Hen. VIII. to Calais, 256, 259 ; his standard defcribed, 256 ; prefent at the " Field of the Cloth of Gold," 259 ; letters to, from Henry VIII., 259-262 ; marr. 2ndly, Anne Rede or Read, 263 ; iflue, ib., 279 ; difpute with Sir Walter Stonor, 258 ; letters to Mr. Knighton and the E. of Eflex, 270; admitted Knt. of S. John of Jeru- falem, 267 ; beheaded, 1539, 273; details of his life from his " Book of Accounts," 267 ; manu- fcripts in his handwriting, 263 ; his miflal and other relics, 266 ; portraits of, at Valetta and Civita Vecchia, 273; alfoat Madrid and Florence, 274-277; abftract of his "Book of Accounts," 280-303 ; inventory of his goods, 304 ; arms af- fumed by, 277 ; fignature and feal, 271. Fortefcue (Adrian), \th fon of Sir Francis Fortefcue; born 1601,418; died 1653; buried at Hodling- ton, co. Wore, ib. ; infeription on his tomb, ib. Fortefcue (Amy), wife of John Fortefcue, of Pen- warne, 132; inherited Wood, 10. Fortefcue (Anna Maria), wife to William Ruxton, 1802, 207. Fortefcue (Anthoine de), fined for lofing his nobility, 470; his privileges reftored, 1645, ib. Fortefcue (Sir Anthony), 3rcf fon of Sir Adrian; born 1 535-39 > educated at Winchefter, 426; marr. Katherine Pole, 1558, ib. ; knighted by Q. Mary, ib. ; tried for confpiracy, 1561, ib. ; imprifoned in the Tower, 428 ; examination before Richard Lewkenor, 1585, 429, note, 491 ; living, 1611 ; iflue, 429. (Anthony), 4th fon of John Fortefcue, of Spridle- ftone ; Marfhal of Ireland, 1 547, 1 1 ; ferved in Scotland, ib. ; fometimes confounded with the preceding, ib. (Anthony), fon of Sir Anthony Fortefcue ; marr. — dau. of Will. Overton, Bifhop of Coventry, 429 ; " Refident " for Charles, Duke of Lorraine, at the Englifh court, ib. ; required to quit the kingdom, 1644, ib. ; alive in 1659,430; papers relating to his difmiflal, ib. ; letters to Sir Symonds D'Ewes, 431, 432 ; feal, ib. Fortefcue (Arthur), of Penwarne; marr. Barbara Elford, 132 ; iflue, ib. Fortefcue (Bartholomew), of Buckland-Filleigh, Capt. R.N. ; mentioned in a Memoir of Lord Chichefter, 150. (Bartholomew), of Wear-Giffard ; marr. Ellen Moor, 128; iflue, ib. ; ob. 1557. Fortefcue (Catherine), buried at S. Marie du Mont, 473- Fortefcue (Charles), of Bofworth ; marr. Frances Bodenham, 419. Fortefcue (Right Honble. Chichefter Samuel), 2nd fon of Colonel Chichefter Fortefcue; born 1823, 208; ftudent of Ch. Ch., Oxford, 1843, ib.; M.P. for Louth, 1847-1874, ib. ; Lord of the Treafury, 1854; Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1857; Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1 866, ib. ; Prefident of the Board of Trade, 1870; fworn Privy Councillor, 1864, ib.; crd. Lord Carling- ford, 1874; marr. Frances, Countefs Walde- General Index. grave, 1 863, 209 ; took the furname of Parkin- fon, ib. Fortefcue (Colonel Chichefter), of Donoughmore ; prefent at the fiege of Londonderry, 202 ; marr. Fridefwide Hall, 1681 ; iflue, ib. (Sir Chichefter), of Dromifhin, Rear- Admiral ; born 1750, 204; Ulfter King-at-Arms, 1788, ib. ; letters to, from Hon. Arthur Wefley, 204, 205; marr. Frances Anne Jones, 1791, 206; iflue, ib. (Colonel Chichefter), of Dromifkin ; M.P. for Hillfborough, 1798, 207; Lieut. -Colonel of Louth Militia, ib. ; marr. Martha Angel Meade-Hobfon, 1809, ib. ; ob. 1826, ib. ; iflue, ib. (Chichefter), of Dromifkin; High Sheriff of Down, 1744, 203; marr. Hon. Elizabeth Wellef- ley, ib. ; received a gold medal for a patriotic vote, 1754, ib. ; mentioned in Mary Granville's Corres- pondence, ib. ; ob. 1757, 204. (Chichefter), eldejt fon of Col. Sir Faithful Fort- efcue; of the Inner Temple, 1633, 198 ; M.P. for Charlemont, 1634, and Carlingford, 1642, ib. ; marr. Elizabeth Slingfby, 199; at fiege of Drog- heda, 1641, 185, 199; ob. 1642,16. Fortefcue (Dormer), 2nd Lord ; his portrait in pof- feffion of Lord Clermont, 143. v. Fortefcue-Aland. Fortefcue (Dudley), of Punfborne ; Squire of the Body to Q. Elizabeth; M.P. for Sudbury, 1592; marr. Mary Strongman, 1581 ; ob. 1604, 249, 405 note. Fortefcue (Edmund, lft), of Fallapit ; High Sheriff of Devon, 1623, 29; marr. Mary Champernoun, ib. ; ob. 1624; buried in Allington Church, ib. ; brafs there, 486. (Sir Edmund, 2nd), of Fallapit ; born 1610, 30 ; marr. to Jane Southcote, ib. ; High Sheriff of Devon, 1642, ib. ; captured by Colonel Kuthven, ib. ; imprifoned in Windfor Caftle, 33 ; infeription by, upon the wall, ib. ; releafed in 1643, ib. ; letter to Col. Seymour, ib. ; commiffioned by Pr. Maurice to repair Salcombc Caftle, 35 ; furrendered to Col. Weldon, 39; retired to Holland, 41 ; died at Delft, 1647, ib. ; his character; portrait at Fal- lapit, ib. (Sir Edmund, 3rd), fon of the preceding ; born 1642, 41 ; marr. to Margery, dau. of Henry, Lord Sandys of the Vine, ib. ; knighted before 1660, ib.; crd. baronet, 1 664 ; petitioned for command of Fort Charles, ib. ; died, 1666, 42 ; iflue, ib. ; pub- lifhed a letter on " Cock-fighting," ib. (Edmund), fon of Peter Fortefcue ; of Cruft ; marr. Maria Wyfe, 42 ; ob. 1783, ib. ; buried at E. Allington, ib. ; infeription, 486; the laft male Fort- efcue poffeflbr of Fallapit, 42. Fortefcue (Edmund), "0/ London;" marr. Sarah Aland, 131, 139; iflue, ib. ; ob. 1681. (Edmund), of Speccot ; took the name of Aland. v. Fortefcue-Aland. Fortefcue (Sir Edward), of Salden ; knighted 1641, 420; marr. lft, — Brookelyn, and 2ndly, Mary Rerefby ; iflue; buried at Murfley, 1662, ib. Fortefcue (Edward), of Spridleflon ; marr. Dorothey Crofting, 1667, 12; his remarkable benefactions to the poor of Brixton, 13; ob. 1702; iflue, ib. ; the elder line of this family failed at his death. Fortefcue (Eleanor), dau. of Sir John Fortefcue of Salden ; wife to Edward Hubbard or Hobart, 1 585, 380; infeription on her tomb, 1605, ib. Fortefcue (Elizabeth), wife to Lewis Fortefcue, 27,49. (Elizabeth), wife to Sir John Beaumont, 1600, 436- (Elizabeth), wife to John Villiers, Vifcl. Pur- beck, 1646, 199. (Elizabeth), inherited Fallapit, 42; ob. unmarr. 1768 ; her pofleffions paffed to Edm. Wells, Efq.,i6. Fortefcue (Sir Faithful), of Buchland-Filleigh ; born 1512, 148 ; ferved in Flanders, 16. ; knighted circ. 1588, ib. ; iflue, 149 ; wrote the "Memoirs of his Family," 148 ; ob. circ. 1608, ib. (Sir Faithful), of Buchland Filleigh ; 3rd fon of John Fortefcue, of Huckland Filleigh ; born circ. 1581, 169; marr. lft, Hon. Anne Moore, 170; 2ndly, Eleanor Symonds, 198; iflue, 199; Con- ftable of Carrickfergus, 1606, 169; M.P. for Charlemont, 16 13, 1 7 1 ; knighted, 1617, ib. ; ap- pointed to a company of Foot in Ireland, 172; M.P. for Armagh, 1634, 1639, 182, 183 ; offers to advance money for the troops, 183; appointed Colonel by Parliament, 1641, 184; letters to the Marquefs of Ormond, 1643, ^47, 188, 190; Orders of Parliament refpecling him, 185, 193; Petitions to the King, 187, 223 ; joins the Koyalifts at Edgehill, 186; taken prifoner at Beaumaris, 190; prefent at the Battle of Worcefter, 1651, 194; reftorcd to the Governorfhip of Carrickfer- gus, 194 ; Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, 1661, 196,490; gift of money to, 196; died at Carif- brooke, 1666, 197; Memorial tablet and window there, 198; his pofleffions, 171 ; inventory of his goods, 231 ; his account of Ld. Chichefter, 175; letter from Ld. Chichefter refpecling him, 173; his relation of " paffages of the E. of Strafford," General Index, 1 79 ; letter to Sir W. Windfor, 1 74 ; feal found on his eftate, 172 ; his feal of arms, 175. Fortefcue ( Colonel Faithful),/on 0/ Sir Faithful(\ 5 12); ferved in Flanders, 149; Lieut.-Col. in the Royalift army, ib. ; reinftated in command by Chas. lis, ib. (Lieut. Faithful), Jon of the preceding ; held commiffion under Sir Thomas Fortefcue, 149; died in Ireland, 1679, ib. Fortefcue (Francis), of Alvejlon ; took the name of Knottesford, 23. v. Knottesford-Fortefcue. (Sir Francis), ofSalden; M.P. for Buckingham, 1592, 1597, 1600,417; Knt. of the Bath, 1603, 417, 364; marr. Grace Manners, 1600, 418; iflue, ib. ; ob. 1623; monument at Murfley, 377, 418; letter to the E. of Salifbury, 417; knights made at his houfe, 1603, 363; inherited Corne- bury and Whichwood, ib. (Sir Francis), 4th Baronet, of Salden ; marr. Mary Huddleftone, 420 ; ob. iffuelefs, 1729; buried at Murfley, 42 1. He fucceeded to the Salden pro- perty, and was the laft male defcendant of Chanc. Fortefcue, ib. (Francis), of Wood ; infcription to, in Wood- leigh Church, 484. Fortefcue (Hon. George) ; reftored Wear-Giflard Houfe, 127. (George), " of Combe," co. Devon ; marr. Joan Norlegh, 129; had lands in Colebrook, 1557, ib. (Rev. George), of Killalla ; killed at the landing of the French, 1798, 220. (George), " of London," f on of John Fortefcue, of Lordington ; an author of repute, 436 ; edu- cated at Rome ; notice of his Works, ib. ; lauda- tory verfes by, 437 ; Secretary to his coufin, An- thony, the " Refident," 438 ; notices of his corref- pondents, ib. ; extract of a letter from Galileo, 1 630, 439 ; ob., 1659 ; Will, 441, 444. (George), of Taviflock, 3rd fon of William Fortefcue ; marr. Rebecca Fortefcue, of Spridle- ftone, 1697, 13, 167; ob. 1700; buried at Tavi- flock, 168. (George), fon of Sir Anthony Fortefcue ; born 1 554> 4 2 9; knights made at his houfe, 1603, 363, 429 ; epitaph, 1634, 447. (George Matthew), of Boconnoc, co. Cornw. ; marr. Lady Louifa Elizabeth Ryder, 1833, 137; iflue, ib. Fortefcue (Georges de), notice of, 477. Fortefcue (Guillaume), killed at Agincourt, 1415, 46 1 ; feal, ib. ; arms, 474. Fortefcue (Guillaume), prifoner at S. Sauveur le Vi- conte, 1375, 472. (Guillaume), Sieur du Buiffon ; a benefactor to the church of S. Marie du Mont, 1540, 473. Fortefcue (Harriet), wife to Rt. Hon. George Knox, 1812, 207. Fortefcue (Sir Henry), Chief Juflice of Common Pleas in Ireland; notice of, 44-48 ; marr. 1 ft, Joan Bozun ; 2ndly, — Fallapit, heirefles of Wood and Fallapit, 48 ; fuit with Sackville, 46 ; his male defcendants failed, 49. Fortefcue (Henry), of Buckland Filleigh ; marr. Agnes Dennis, 151 ; ob. 1 69 1 ; monument in Buckland- Filleigh church, ib. (Henry), " of Falkborne ; " Efquire of the Body to Q. Elizabeth, 249; marr. lft, Elizabeth Stafford; 2ndly,Mary, widow of Sir Edw. Darrell,i6. / iflue ib.; ob. 1576, 250; tomb in Falkborne church, ib. ; his paternal eftates, 249; funeral certificate, 253. (Henry), of Wimflone ; died 1587, 7; defired to be buried at Modbury, ib. ; iflue, ib. Fortefcue (Hugh), 2nd Lord and 1 ft Earl Fortefcue ; M.P. for Beaumaris, 1784, 136; marr. Hefter Grenville, 1782, ib. ; crd. Vifcount Ebrington and E. Fortefcue, 1789,16. ; ob. 1841 ; correfpondence with Mr. Lyfons, ib. ; iflue, 137. (Hugh), 2nd Earl, K.G. ; born 1 783, 1 38 ; M.P. for Barnftaple, ib. ; Lord Steward of the Houfe- hold, 1 846- 1 850, ib. ; marr. lft, Lady Sufan Ryder, 1817; 2ndly, Elizabeth Geale, 1841, ib. ; ob. 1861 ; his character, ib. ; account of his interview with Napoleon I., ib. ; ftatue to him at Exeter, ib. (Hugh), 3rd Earl ; M. P. for Plymouth, 1841- 1 852, andMarylebone, 1854-1859, 139;marr. Geor- gina Augufta Dawfon-Damer, 1847, ib. ; iflue, ib. (Hugh),ybw of Hugh Fortefcue of Filleigh ; born 1695 ; crd. 14th Baron Clinton, 1721, 135; Knight of the Bath, 1725; Lord Fortefcue, of Caftle Hill and Earl Clinton, 1746, ib. ; ob. 1751, 136. (Hugh), of Filleigh ; born 1 544 ; marr. Eliza- beth Chichefter, 129; iflue, ib.; ob. 1600; monu- mental infcription, 130. (Hugh), of Filleigh, grandfon of preceding ; born 1592; marr. Mary Rolle, 1612, 130, 139; erected monument at Wear-Giflard, 1 30 ; iflue, 131. (Hugh), of Filleigh, eld. fon of Arthur ; marr. lft, Bridget Bofcawen ; 2ndly, Lucy, dau. of Lord Aylmer, 132; ferved in Parliament, 1727, 1734, 1741-1745, ib. ; letter to Robert Harley, 134; ob. 1719, 135. Fortefcue (Right Hon. James), of Ravenf dale, younger General Index. fon of Thomas Forte/cue, of Clermont ; born 1725, 219 ; M. P. for Dundalk, 1757, and Louth, 1761 ; marr. Mary Henrietta Hunter, ib ; iffue. ik, 221 ; buried in Clermont Park, 219; his character, ib. Fortefcue (James), D.D. of Oxford ; lift of his literary productions, 151 ; ob. unmarr. 1777, ib. Fortefcue (Jehan), Efcuier; Captain of Pont Douve, 459 ; Lord of S. Evremont, 460 ; Mufters and Re- ceipts, with feals, 1366-1399,456-459; ob. 1402, 461. (Jehan), 2nd fon of preceding ; figned the capitulation of S. Lo, 1417, 464; certificate of homage done to Hen. V., 1420, 48 1; "Garde du Seel de Chierburgh," 1424, 465; knight and ban- neret, 1429', ib. ; held command in the Norman army ; mufter of his retinue, ib. ; receipts for pay, 466 ; " Garde du Seel de Valognes," ib. ; importance of his office, 467 ; marr. 1 ft, Marie de Perfy, 2ndly, Jeanne d'Anneville, 468 ; notice of his fon Triftan, 469. (Jehan), Efcuier, de Neauhou ; fiefs held by him, 472 ; marr. Guillemette du Hommet, ib. Fortefcue (Jean-Francois de), de I'Anglet ; account of his family, 453. Fortefcue (Joan), of Wood ; wife to John Fortefcue, of Prefton, lcr; conveyed the Wood eftate to that branch, 48. Fortefcue (John), of Bampton, co. Oxon ; the laft Fortefcue poffeiTor of Fallapit and Buckland- Filleigh, 163. (John), of Buckland-Filleigh, eld. fon of Wil- liam and Anne Giffard ; marr. lft, Anne Porter; 2ndly, Sufannah Chichefrer, 150, 169 ; iffue, 16./ ob. 1604; Will, 170, 229. (John), of Buckland-Filleigh. fon of Roger Fort- efcue ; of the Inner Temple, 1619, 150; marr. Thomazine Prideaux, ib. ; ob. 1665; monument in Buck. -Fill, church, ib. (John), ofCookhill, Royalifl leader ; marr. Jane D'Ewes, 23 ; took the " Act of Abjuration," 1649, 22 ; iffue, 23. (Captain John), of Coohhill ; entered the navy, l 739, 23 ; made a voyage round the world, in the " Centurion," 1 740, ib. ; ob. 1808; iffue, ib. The laft of the family buried at Cookhill, ib. (John), 1 Jl Baron Fortefcue of Credan ; born 1670,140; M.P. for Midhurft, ib. ; Sol. -General to Geo. I. ; Juftice of the King's Bench, 1718, and Common Pleas, 1788, ib. ; crd. Baron Fortefcue of Credan, 1746, ib. ; marr. lft, Grace Pratt; 2ndly, Elizabeth Dormer, 142; ob. 1746; extract of Will, 140; anecdote of, 141; character and writings, ib. ; diploma of D.C.L. of Oxford, 146; portrait, in poffeffion of Ld. Clermont, 141. Fortefcue (John), fon of the preceding; born 1722, 142; diedat Tours, 1 743; buried at Stapleford Abbots, ib. (John), of Fallapit ; grandfon of Sir Henry Fort- efcue; marr. Margaret Hingefton, 48 ; accompanied the E. of Devon to the relief of Exeter, 1495, 49. (John), of Fallapit, fon of Louis, Baron Fort- efcue ; marr. Honour Speccot, 27; ob. 1595; tomb in Allington Church, ib. ; infeription, 486 ; portrait at Fallapit, 28. (John), of Fallapit ; marr. Sarah Prideaux, 29 ; iffue, 30 ; took up arms againft the Parliament; imprifoned in "the Clinke," 29; ob. 1649, 30 ; extracts from his Will, 1647, ib. (John), of Filleigh, fon of Martin Fortefcue ; born 1460, 128; fucceeded lo his mother's eftates, ib. ; ob. 1502, ib. v. Fortefcue-Aland. (John), Rector of Haynejlown ; marr. Elizabeth Bellingham, 21 2 ; ob. 1781. (John), "0/ Herts.;" v. Fortefcue (John), of Punfborne. (John), of Lordington ; marr. Ellen Henflow, 429 ; iffue, 436 ; his narrative of the " Gunpowder Plot, " 433 ; died at S. Omer, 434 ; letter to the E. of Eflex, 1597, 435. (Sir John), furnamed " of Meaux ; " account of, 44, 45, 48 ; marr. Joan Norreis, 44 ; iiTue, ib. ; poffible intermarriage with the Norman branch, 476 ; ob. circ. 1435, 45. (Sir John), 2nd fon of Sir John Fortefcue, " of Meaux;" Lord Chancellor temp. Hen. VI. ; born circ. 1396, 44, 51 ; Governor of Lincoln's Inn, 1425,26.,- marr. Ifabella'Jamyft, circ. 1435, 53; iffue, ib. ; Junior Judge, 1442, 54; Lord Chief Juftice, 1442, ib. ; knighted circ. 1443, 55; ill- nefs, 1443, 16./ named as "Trier of Petitions," 1444, 56 ; mode of living, 1447, 58 ; at battle of Palm Sunday, 146 1, 62; crd. Lord Chancellor, fame year, 63 ; obfervations on his appointment, 63,64; attainted, 1461,66; Inquifition on attainder, 105 ; embarked with the Queen for Flanders, 68 ; im- prifoned by Edw. IV., 85 ; releafed, 1471, ib. ; pe- titioned for rcverfal of attainder, 87 ; ob. circ. i486, 91 ; character, 5'> 54> 95, 97! mentioned in the Pafton Letters, 55, 59; mural tablet to, 91 ; and tomb, 93; feal of arms, 72; portraits, 94; expenfes of his inveftiture as Sergeant-at-Law, 52 ; falary, 60 ; annuity, 103; grant of wine to, 1443, t General Index. 1455, 61 ; purchafed Ebrington, 1457, 59 ; grant of Philip's-Norton to, 102 ; letter to the E. of Ormond, 7 1 ; letter to, from Abp. Kemp, 57 ; " Memoires " addreffed to the King of France, 80 ; his writings, 96, 99 ; his " Declaration upon certain Writings," etc., 106-125 ; Argument of the fame, 86 ; various editions of his " De Laudibus, " 487. (For his other Works, fee Vol. I. of the firjl edition of the prefent " Hiftory, " Lond. 1 869.) Fortefcue (John), of Penwarne ; High-Sheriff of Cornwall, 1741, 132 ; marr. Amy Fortefcue, ib. ■ (Sir John), of Punfborne, eld. fon of Sir Richard ; marr. Alice Montgomery, 235, 248 ; had conveyance of Mymmefhall, 1455, 56, 235. (Sir John), of Punfborne, youngefl fon of Sir Richard ; born circ. 1440, 236 ; Sheriff of Corn- wall, 1471-1476, ib. ; at the fiege of S. Michael's Mount, ib. ; marr. lft, Alice Boleyn, 239 ; 2ndly, Elizabeth Calthorpe, 244 : iffue, 246 ; Sheriff of Hertfordfhire, 1481, 239 ; i486, 240, 243; Mafter- Porter of Calais, 1483, 240; at the Battle of Bof- worth, 241 ; attainted, ib. ; made Chief Butler, 1485, ib. ; Knight Banneret, i486, 242 ; grant of manors to, ib. ; affifted at the knighting of Henry, Pr. of Wales, 1494, 243 ; feud with Sir William Say, 245 ; attended Hen. VII. to Calais, 1 500, 246 ; died fame year; tomb at Bifhop's-Hatfield, ib. (Sir John), of Punfborne, called " John of Herts. ; " marr. Philippa Spice, 235, 243, 248 ; iffue, ib. ; accompanied Hen. VIII. to Calais, 248 ; mentioned in the "Book of Accounts " of Hen. VII., 247 ; ob. 1 517, 248 ; his ftandard defcribed, 256. (Sir John), of Salden, Chancellor of the Ex- chequer to Q. Elizabeth; born, 1533,312; Act for his " Reftitution in Blood," ib. ; preceptor to the Princefs Elizabeth, ib. ; Keeper of the Wardrobe, 1559, ib. ; marr. lft, Cicely Afhfield, 313; 2ndly, Alice Smyth, 325; iffue, 314, 380; M.P. for Wallingford, 1 572, 326 ; and Buckingham, 1586, 3 2 7> 334 > anc l 1604, 364 ; circumftances attending his Return, 365 ; M.P. for Middlefex, 1605, 366 ; feud with Ld. Grey, 314, 490 ; Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Privy Councillor, 329 ; knighted 1592, 331 ; one of the judges at the trial of the E. of Effex, 354 ; addrefs in his favour, 352 ; coufinfhip with the Earl, 343 ; received the Am- baffador from the States-General, 353 ; appointed Chanc. of the Duchy of Lancafter, 1601, 357 ; confirmed by James I., 360 ; prefent at the funeral of Mary, Q. of Scots, 327, and of Q. Elizabeth, 358 ; entertained James I. at Salden, 1603, 362 ; knights made on that occafion, ib. ; died 1607, 371 ; buried at Murfley, 374; monument there, 375; funeral certificate, ib. ; his feal, 334; dif- coveryofhis portrait, 371, 415; his portrait of Chancellor Fortefcue, now at Bofworth Hall, 94 ; character, 372 ; extracts from Bodley's letters re- flecting him, 373; patent as Recorder of Cam- bridge^^; offer of a barony to, 370; grant of manors to, 364; lift of eftates, 412; purchafed Salden, 1 580, 313; built Salden Houfe, 326 ; offices held by, 357, 379 ; his opinion of the Succeffion, 360 ; fpeeches in Parliament, 335, 349, 350, 355 ; refutation of a fcandal againft Anne Boleyn, 332 ; " the Groundes " of a fpeech, 500 ; " Remembrances " for him, 414 ; lines addreffed to, by H. Lok, 347 ; gifts to the Bodleian Library, 372, 411 ; warrants relating to Sir Walter Raleigh, 408 ; fpecial com- miffions on which he ferved, 415; correfpondence with Sir A. Douglas. 338-340, 386-389 ; Lord Burghley, 333, 383, 385 ; the Earl of Effex, 342- 344 ; Ld. Buckhurft, 391, 399 ; about the " Great Carrack, " 333 ; letters to D. Caefar, 328, 329 ; Sir A. Bacon, 345 ; Sir Robert Cecil, 354, 389, 390, 392, 393-39 8 > 401-404; James I. 361 ; Ld. Spencer, 367; Sir Julius Caefar, 369, 370; the E. of Shrewfbury, 38 1 ; the keeper of Kennyng- hall Park, 382 ; Sir Henry Unton, ib. ; Vif&. Cranborne, 404-406 ; Ld. Keeper Puckering, 407 ; Sir Michael Hickes, 407, 410 ; the Earl of Salif- bury, 406 ; Sir Thomas Knyvett, 409 ; Sir George Carew, 409, 410; Sir William Walgrave, 410; Sir John Thynne, 41 1. Fortefcue (Sir John), of Salden, 1 ft baronet ; born 1592, 419; marr. Frances Stanley, ib. ; crd. a baronet, 1636; taken prifoner at battle of Iflip ; ob. 1656 ; buried at Murfley, 420. (Sir John), 2nd baronet; born 1614, 420; marr. lft, Margaret Arundel ; 2ndly, Mary Stonor, 3rdly, Elizabeth Wintour, ib.; ob. 1683. - — -(Sir John), 3rd baronet; born 1644, 420; fucceeded to the baronetcy, 1683; ob. 1717; ib. ■ (John), of Spridleftone, eld. fon of Richard;bom, 1515, 12; marr. Florence Vivian, ib. ; iffue, ib. (John), " the younger," of Spridleftone ; 3rd fon of William, of Wimftone ; marr. Alice Cock- worthy or Keckworthy, 1 1 ; iffue, ib., 1 5. (John), of Spridleftone, Bar. of the Exchequer, t. Hen. VIII.; ob. 1547, 12. (John), of Spridleftone, a Royalift ; com- pounded for his eftates, 1 649, 1 2 ; iffue, ib. (Sir John), of Wimftone, eld. fon of Adam Fort- General Index. efcue ; obtained grant of Wimftone, 1 209, 3 ; com- manded in army raifed againft the barons, ib. ; iffue, 4. Fortefcue (John), of Wimftone ; M.P. for Taviftock, Totnes, and Plymton, 2-8 Hen. VI., 6 ; marr. Jane Prutefton or Prefton, bef. 1450, ib. ; living 1461, 7 ; iffue, ib. (John), of Wimftone, eld. fon of preceding ; marr. Ifabella Gibbs, 7; iffue, 8; ob. 1519; no trace of his lands at this day, ib. Fortefcue (John), 2nd fon of Sir Faithful Fortefcue ; killed in Ireland, 1642, 199. (John), canon of Worcefter ; marr. Sophia Neville, 1842, 137 ; ob. 1869, ib. (John), of the Inner Temple; Elegy on, 42. Fortefcue (Colonel John Inglett), v. Inglett-Fort- efcue. Fortefcue (Louis or Lewis), of Fallapit ; appointed "Reader" of the Middle Temple, 1536,27 ; made 4th Baron of the Exchequer, 1 542, ib. ; marr. Elizabeth Fortefcue, and acquired Fallapit, 11, 27,49; ob. 1545,16./ extracts from his will, 15, 27 ; iffue, 27 ; bequeft from, 15. Fortefcue (Louife de), wife to Philippe Emmanuel de Cramezel, 1244,448. Fortefcue (Lucy), 3rd dau. of Hugh Fortefcue, of Filleigh ; born 1717, 132; marr. George, 1 ft Ld. Lyttleton, 1742, ib. ; buried at Over Arley, 1746, ib. ; monumental inferiptions at Hagley, 133. Fortefcue (Margery), dau. to Sir John Fortefcue of Salden ; wife of Sir John Pultcney, 1602, 325 ; in- fcription on her tomb, 380. Fortefcue (Mariette de), of S. Marie du Mont ; wife to Charles de Beaugendre, 473. Fortefcue (Sir Martin), of Filleigh; firfl of the Fort- efcues fettled in N. Devon, 43, 127 ; marr. Elizabeth Denzille, 53, 126; inquifition at his death, 144. Fortefcue (Mary),o/ Buckland-Filleigh ; wife to John Spooner, Efq., 1733,34, 163; inherited Fallapit and Buckland-Filleigh, ib. (Mary), of Fallapit; wife to Right Hon. William Fortefcue, of Buckland-Filleigh, 42, 152; buried at E. Allington, ib. ; infeription, 486. (Mary), wife to Anthony Fettiplace, 313. Fortefcue (Matthew), 2nd Ld. Fortefcue; born 1719, 132; marr. Anne Campbell, 1 752, 136; ob. 1785, ib. ; iffue, ib. (Matthew), fon of William Fortefcue ; Lieu- tenant in the Navy, 2 12. Fortefcue (Maud), 2nd dau. of Chanc. Fortefcue ; wife to Robert Corbet, 54 ; died in the nunnery at Helvefton, ib. Fortefcue (Michael de), Sieur de VAnglet ; defcent, 1670, 454. Fortefcue (Sir Nicholas), Groom-Porter to Hen. VIII.; anceftor of the family of Knottesford-Fort- efcue, 1 1 ; and of the Fortefcues of Cookhill, 15 ; marr. Katherine Skinner, 16 ; had grant of Cookhill and Church Lench, co. Warw., from Henry VIII. , ib. ; and of Campden, co. Glouc, ib. ; bought the manor of Wheatley, co. Warw. , 17; ob. 1549; iffue, 11, 17 ; Will, 24. Fortefcue (Sir Nicholas), of Cookhill, grandfon of the preceding ; perfonal defcription, 18 ; marr. to Pru- dence Wheteley, 19 ; iffue, ib. ; fuppofed connection with Gunpowder Plot, 17; knighted by Jas. I., 1617, 18; Chamberlain of the Exchequer, 1618, ib. ; Commiffioner on feveral occafions, 1622, 1623, ib.; ob. 1633, 19 ; letter from, to Sir W. Pitt, 19 ; funeral certificate, 26, seal, 22. (Sir Nicholas), 4th fon of the preceding; Knight of S. John of Jerufalem, 20 ; commiffioned to " revive the Englifh tongue " of that order, at Malta, ib.; " proofs " of his " nobility," 21, 22, 1 72 ; took up arms for the King, 2 1 ; killed at Prefton, 1644, ib. ; affociated with the poet Milton, 485. (Nicholas), of Salden ; epitaph, 1719, 446. (Nicholas de), Seign. de Villecourt ; " titres de Nobilite" exhibited by, 1634, 469. Fortefcue (Sir Peter), of Wood; crd. a Baronet, 1666,67, 10; marr. 1 ft, Bridget Eliot ; 2ndly, Amy Courtcnay, ib. ; baronetcy extinct, 1685 ; iffue, 3 daughters, ib. (Peter), " of Cruft;" marr. to Elizabeth Bartond, 29, 42. Fortefcue (Pierre), marr. circ. 1350, Guillemette Aux Efpaules, 472. (Pierre), ferved at Agincourt, 1415, 463; and at Tours, 1418; receipt and leal, 1419, ib. Fortefcue (Rebecca), $tb dau. of Edm. Fortefcue, of Spridleftone ; wife to George Fortefcue, of Tavi- ftock, 1697, 13, 167 ; inherited eftates in cos. Devon and Oxon, 13. (Rebecca), younger dau. of George Fortefcue ; wife to Caleb Inglett, 1726, 13, 168. Fortefcue (Sir Richard), named Le Fort; came to England with William the Conqueror, 2; returned to Normandy afu r the battle of I Liftings, 3 ; named in an " Aflizc de Mortc d'Anceftre," ib., 484. (Sir Richard), of F.rmington and Punfborne, 3rd fon of Sir John, " of Mianx ; marr. Alice de General Index. Windefor, 234; iflue, ib. ; went to France, 1421, 22, ib. ; mufter taken by, 1428, 474 ; killed at the battle of St. Albans, 1461, 235; anceftor of the Fortefcues of cos. Herts., Eflex, and Bucks., 44; poffible intermarriage with the Norman branch, 476. Fortefcue (Richard), of Filleigh, eld. f on of Bartholo- mew Fortefcue ; marr. Joan Moreton, 1 29 ; hTue, ib. ; ob. 1570; buried at Filleigh ; memorial brafs there, ib. Fortefcue (General Richard), of Hickfield, co. Hants ; Cromwellian officer; took Pendennis Caftle, 1646, 441 ; went to Barbadoes in 1654, ib. ; Com- mander-in-Chief of Jamaica, 1655, 442; died 1657; Will, 1648, proved 1657, 445. (Richard), of Punfborne ; marr. Agnes Holla- combe circ. 1453 ; ob. 1480, 235. (Richard), of Spridlefton, 2nd fon of John ; ob. 1 580, 1 2 ; abftracT: of his Will, ib. (Sir Richard), of Wimftone ; granted lands to Walter Faber, of Modbury, temp. John, 4. (Meffire Richart), Efcuier, Seign. du Buiffon, Normandy; living in 1464,473; his defcendants held Buiflbn in 1540, ib. ; arms, 475 ; his " Char- trier," 471, 472, 473; 496. (Richart), Chevalier, of Normandy ; defcent to 1552, 450. Fortefcue (Colonel Robert), of Filleigh, 2nd fon of Hugh; born 1617; marr. lft, Grace Grenville, 2ndly, Sufannah Northcote, 131 ; iflue ib. ; ob. 1677 ; extracts from his Will, ib. ; erected a monu- ment to Chancellor Fortefcue, 1677, 91 ; Atkyn's notice of him, 94. Fortefcue. (Sir Sandys), Bart., of Fallapit ; born 1661, 42; marr. Elizabeth Lenthall, ib. ; ob. 1680. Fortefcue (Theophilus), of Filleigh; born 1707, 132; M.P. for Barnftaple, 1727, 1734, 1741 ; ob. 1745, ib. Fortefcue (Sir Thomas), eld. fon of Sir Faithful Fortefcue; born 1620, 200; ferved in the Low Countries, and with the Royalifts, at Edge Hill, 1642, ib. ; taken prifoner, 1649 ; at the battle of Worcefter, 1651, ib. ; Governor of Carrickfergus, 1661, 201; knighted, 1663, ib. ; marr. ift., Sydney Kingfmill, 2ndly, Elizabeth Cary, 202 ; iflue, ib.; Will, 1710, 232; letter from, to Sir Geo. Lane, 1633, 20 1. (Thomas), "0/ Dartmouth;" grandfon of John Fortefcue, of Fallapit; Will, 1595, 28 ; bequefts to Exeter Coll., Oxford; rings with pofies, etc., ib. ; ob. without iflue, 1602. Fortefcue (Thomas), of Donnington ; born 1534,265, 423 ; poflefled the manor of Charlton, co. Kent, 425; letter to Sir Thomas Knyvett, 1599,16.,* M.P. for Wallingford, 1593, !591, 1601, 424; "Eflays" by, (?) 423 ; ob. 161 1,425 ; Arms, 424; Will, 1611, 443. (Thomas), of Dromifkin, eld. fon of Chichefter Fortefcue ; born, 1744, 207 ; M.P. for Trim, 1768- 1779, ib. ; marr. lft, Hon. Mary Pakenham, 1770; 2ndly, Mary Nicholfon, 1776, ib. ; iflue, ib. ; ob. 1779. (Thomas), of Dromifkin, only fon of Col. Chichefter Fortefcue; marr. Anne Garftin, 1716, 203; iflue, ib. ; ob. 1725. (Thomas), of Dromifkin ; born 1784; held im- portant employments in India, 206 ; marr. Louifa Marg. Eager, 1859, ib. ; ob. 1872. (Thomas), of Fallapit ; Fellow of Exeter Coll., Oxford, 1557, 423; Petreian Fellow, 1566, ib. ; author of " the Forefte " (?), ib. (Thomas), of Randalfiown and Ravenfdale ; born 1682, 212; M.P. for Dunleer, 17 15, and Dundalk, 1727, ib. ; marr. Elizabeth Hamilton, ib. ; ob. 1769; iflue, 213; improved the Louth eftate, 212. (Thomas), of Salden, 3rd fon of Sir John ; of the Inner Temple, 380 ; M.P. for Wycombe, 1593, ib. (Thomas), Baron Clermont, eld. fon of Colonel Chichefter Fortefcue; born 1815, 208; M.P. for Louth, 1840, ib. ,* marr. Lady Louifa Grace Wandesforde Butler, 1 840, ib. ; created Baron Clermont, 1852, ib. ; letter to, from M. Courois, 1867, 477. (Thomas), of Wimftone ; marr. to Cicely Strode, 7 ; fucceeded at Wimftone by his brother Henry, 1554, ib. (Thomas), of Wimftone; marr. Florence Bountle, 7 ; ob. 1554, ib. Fortefcue (Triftain), of Mefnil-Angot ; his defcen- dants, 1598, 1634,469; armorial bearings, 473, 475- Fortefcue (William), v. Fortefcue (Guillaume). (Right Hon. William), fon of Henry Fortefcue, of Buc kland- Filleigh ; born 1687, 152; marr. Mary Fortefcue, of Fallapit, ib. ; entered the Inner Temple, 1 7 14 ; intimate friend of Pope, ib. ; M.P. for Newport, 1727, 160; made Baron of the Exchequer, 1738, and Mafter of the Rolls, 1741, 161 ; died 1749, ib. ; buried in the Rolls Chapel, 162; epitaph, ib. ; correfpondence with Pope and Gay, 153-159, 163, 164; addrefled by Gay in his General Index. "Trivia," 160; letter to Mrs. Howard, 163; Extract from his diary, 164; fpecimen of " Scrib- lerus's Reports," 166. Fortefcue (Sir William), 2nd fon of Sir John Forte/cue, of Salden ; of the Inner Temple, 1581 ; M.P. for Chipping-Wycombe, 1597, 380; ferved in Ireland, 1600-1603,16.; knighted, 1600, ib.; died, 1629; buried at Murfley, ib. (William), eld. fon of John F. and Thoma- zine Pride aux ; marr. Emlyn Trofle, 151; iflue, ib. ; died 1 679. (William), 2nd fcnof Martin Fortefcue; inherited Buckland-Filleigh, circ. 1500, 148; marr. Maud Atkyns, ib. ; he founded the family of Buckland- Filleigh, and its branches of Dromifkin and Ravenfdale Park, 128. (William), eld. fon of John Fortefcue, of Buckland- Filleigh; marr. in 1555, Anne Giffard, of Brightley, 148; father of Sir Faithful Fortefcue ; died 1580, ib. ; Will, 227. (William), of Moreleigh ; marr. Catharine Walfh, 7. (William), of Newragh, grandfon of Sir Faithful Fortefcue; born 1647, 209 ; lieutenant of Foot, 1680, ib. ; ftatement of his loffes at the defence of Bandon, 1694, ib. ; addrefs to Parliament on his behalf, ib. ; marr. Margaret Gernon, 1681, 212; died 1 734 ; iffue, ib. (William), of Prutejlon or Prefton ; marr. Eliza- beth Champernoun, 9 ; died 1 520, 16. ; Will, ib. (William), of Whealley, fon of Sir Nicholas, Groom- Porter ; marr. UrJ'ula Newport, circ. 1592, 17 ; died intcftate, 1605 ; iflue, ib. (William), $th fon of Sir Francis Fortefcue, of Salden; born 1602, 419; marr. Anne Webb, ib. ; inherited Bofworth Hall, co. Leic, ib. ; died 1639; buried at Murfley, ib. (William), of Wimflone; held lands in Hol- beton, circ. 1342, 4; marr. Alice Strechlcigh, 16./ granted lands in 1360 and 1369, 5. (William), of Wimflone, fon of the preceding ; granted lands in 1375 and 1378; living in 1394, 5- (William), of Wimflone, grandfon of William F. and Alice Strechleigh ; marr. Elizabeth Beau- champ, 5 ; living in 1406, 6 ; notice of, 484. (William), of Wimjione, eld. fon of preceding ; marr. Mabel Falwell or Fowell, 1394, 6; the fource of feveral branches of Fortcfcucs, ib. Fortefcue (William Blundell), born 1816, 43; marr. Harriet Maria Taylor, 1837 ; iflue, ib. Fortefcue (William Charles), 2nd Vifft. Clermont ; M.P. for Louth, 1790, 221 ; taken prifoner by the French, 1798, 220 ; inherited Ravenfdale, 1795, 221; died unmarried, 1829,16. Fortefcue (William Henry), ifl Vifft. and Earl Cler- mont, K.P.; born 1722, 213; M.P. for Louth, 1745, and Monaghan, 1761, 1768, ib. ; marr. Frances Murray, 1752, ib.; created Baron Cler- mont, 1770, and Vifct. and Baron Clermont, 1776, and Earl Clermont, 1777, ib. ; died 1806; tablet in Crefllngham church, 214; anecdotes of, ib. Fortefcue, Chevalier ; notice of, 452. Fortefcue-Aland (Dormer), 2nd Bar. Fortefcue, of Credan; born 1722, 142 ; ob. 1781, 144; buried at Stapleford, ib. ; poflefled the Dormer eftates. (Edmund), of Speccot ; ob. unmarr. 1704, 13 1, »39- Fortefcue-Brickdale (John), information received from, 161, 168. v. Brickdale (John). Fortefcue-Turville (Francis), marr. Barbara Talbot, 419; iflue, ib. ; ob. 1839; inherited Hufband's- Bofworth ; ib. Fowell (Mabel), v. Falwell. Francis (Margaret), 2nd wife to William Fortefcue. of Prefton, IO. Fulford ( — ), dau. of Sir John Fulford, lft wife to William Fortefcue, of Prefton, 70. Fuller (T.), notice of Chancellor Fortefcue, 55. Gage (Thomas, I'ifcount), marr. Benedict Therefa Maria Fortefcue, 420. Galileo Galilei ; extract of his letter to George Fortefcue, 1630, 439. Garftin (Anne), wife to Thomas Fortefcue, of Dro- mifkin, 1716, 203. Gay (John), correfpondence with the Rt. Hon. Wil- liam Fortefcue, 159, 163. Geale (Elizabeth), 2nd wife to Hugh, 2nd Earl Fortefcue, 1841, 1 38. George I., queftion referred by, to the 12 judges, 142. George IV., anecdotes of, when Pr. of Wales, 214- 218. Gernon (Margaret), wife to William Fortefcue, of Newragh, 1681, 212. Gibbs (Ifabclla), wife to John Fortefcue, of Wim- flone, 7- Giffard (Anne), wife to William Fortefcue, of Bright- Icy, 1555, H8. Gloucefterfhire ; Fortefcue iftatcs in, 16, 59, 91, 128, 131, 255, 278. General Index. Glover (Mary), wife to John Fortefcue, of Cookhill, 16. Goodricke (Sir Harry James), poffeffed the Louth and Down Eftates, 1833, 222 ; ob. unmarr. ib. Goodwin (Sir Francis), circumftances of his return for Bucks, 365. Graignes, arr. de St. Lo, Norm. ; a Fortefcue family ftill (1869) refident at, 455. Granville (Mary), extract from her correfpondence, 1752, 203. Gregor (Francis), notice by, of Chancellor Fortefcue, 64; tranflated " De Laudibus Legum Angliae," 142. Grenville (Grace), wife to Col. Robert Fortefcue, 131- (Hefter), wife to Hugh, lft Earl Fortefcue, 136. Lady, of Dropmore ; fucce ffion to her eftates, 137. Grefham (James), letter to Sir William Pafton, H43, 55- Grevyle (Joyes or Jocofa), purchafe of Ebrington at her death, 59. Grey (Arthur), Ld. Grey of Wilton ; feud with Sir John Fortefcue, of Salden, 1574, 314, 490. " Gunpowder Plot," mention of the, 17, 278, 433. Hagley, co. Wore. ; monument to Lucy Lyttleton at, 133- Hall (Fridefwide), wife to Chichefter Fortefcue, of Donoughmore, 202. Hamilton (Elizabeth), wife to Thomas Fortefcue, of Clermont, 212. Hampfhire ; Fortefcue eftates in, 202, 255. Harcombe, co. Devon ; lands held by William Fort- efcue at, 9. Harley (Robert), aftds. E. of Oxford ; letter to, from J. [H. ?] Fortefcue, 134. Hatfield Houfe, co. Herts. ; letters of Sir John Fort- efcue at, 381. Hawkins (Sir Thomas), verfes addreffed to him, 437. Hendon, co. Midd.; vifited by James I., 361. Henrietta Maria, wife to Chas. I. ; commiffion from, to Sir Nich. Fortefcue, to " revive the Englifh tongue," 20. Henry V. ; certificate of homage done by Jehan Fortefcu, 1420, 481. Henry VI. ; letter to Louis XL, 78. Henry VII. ; command to Sir John Fortefcue to keep the peace, 245 ; memoranda of the Fortefcues in his "Book of Accounts," 247. Henry VIII. ; letters from, to Sir Adrian Fortefcue, 259, 260, 262. Henflow (Ellen), wife to John Fortefcue, of Lording- ton, 429 ; narration by, of the " Gunpowder Plot," 433 ; died at S. Omer, 434. Hertfordfhire ; Fortefcue eftates in, 44, 235, 249, 250, 379- Hickes (Michael), letters to, from Sir John Fortefcue, 1593, 1602, 407, 410. Hill (Margaret), wife to Richard, fon of Sir Henry Fortefcue, 48. Hingefton (Margaret), wife to John, grandfon to Sir Henry Fortefcue, 48. Hodlington, co. Wore. ; monument to Adrian Fort- efcue, of Salden, at, 1653, 4'8. Holberton, co. Devon ; inherited by William Fortef- cue, 4 ; notice of eftates at, 44, 50 note. Hollacombe (Agnes), wife to Richard Fortefcue, H53, 235. Hollinfhed (R.), notice of Fortefcue eftates by, 4. Horn (Rev. M.), defcription by, of the fite of Salden Houfe, 1854, 421. Horwood (Alfred), communication from, 1869, 16 1. Howard, (Mrs.), aftds. Countefl of Suffolk ; letter to, from William Fortefcue, 1726, 163. (Sir Edward), Lord Admiral ; marr. the widow of Sir John Fortefcue, 1502, 246. Hubbard, or Hobart (Edward), marr. Eleanor, dau. of Sir John Fortefcue, 1 585, 380. Huddlelton (Ifabella), wife to Edmund Fortefcue, 250. (Mary), wife to Sir Francis Fortefcue, 420. Humbert, General ; account of his expedition, 220. Hungerford (Robert), 3rd Baron ; letter to Queen Margaret, 1461, 65. Hunter (Mary Henrietta), wife to the Rt. Hon. James Fortefcue, of Ravenfdale, 219. Hufband's-Bofworth, co. Leic. ; v. Bofworth Hall. Incledon ( — ), compiler of the " Stemmata Fortef- cuana," 85. Ingham, co. Norfolk; extracts from court-roll of the manor, 251 . Inglett (Richard), fucceeded to Buckland-Filleigh and Spridleftone, 1776, 13, 95, 168; took the name of Fortefcue, ib. Inglett-Fortefcue (Colonel John), marr. Ann Sanders, 1788, and Sarah Marwood, 1818, 168 ; iffue, ib. ; died 1840; fold BucklandrFilleigh and Spridle- ftone, 13, 95, 168. Ireland; Fortefcue eftates in, 128, 139, 140, 169, 170, 171, 198, 200, 203, 207-209, 212, 219, 221. James I. ; vifited Sir John Fortefcue at Hendon, 361 ; at Salden, 1603, 362 ; and at Cornbury, General Index. 1605, 368 ; knights made by him at Salden, 362 ; letter to, from Sir John Fortefcue, 361. Jamyfs (Ifabella), wife to Lord Chancellor Fortefcue, 53- John, King of England ; Charter of Wimftone, 1209, 3. Jones (Frances Ann), wife to Admiral Fortefcue, 1791, 206. Keckworthy, v. Cockworthy. Kemp (John), Abp. of Canterbury, Chancellor ; letter to Chancellor Fortefcue, 57. Kent, county of ; Fortefcue eftates in, 425. Kerver (Thomas), his cafe, 1447, 56. Killalla, co. Mayo; account of the landing of the French at, 1798, 220. Kingfmill (Sydney), 1 ft wife to Sir Thomas Fortef- cue, 202. Knighton (Thomas), letter to, from Sir Adrian Fort- efcue, 270. Knolles (Elizabeth), wife to Richard Fortefcue, of Spridlefton, 12. Knolls-Hill, co. Effex ; purchafed by Sir John Fortefcue, 143; defcription of the manlion and fchool at, ib. Knottesford-Fortefcue (Rev. Edward Bowles), Dean of Perth ; lineally defcendcd from Sir Nicholas F., Groom-Porter to Hen. VIII., 16; information by, refpecling Cookhill, ib. ; marr. 1 ft, Frances Anne Spooner, 1838, and 2ndly, Gertrude Robins, 1871, 23 ; died, 1877. (Captain Edward Francis), of Alveflon ; born 1840; marr. Alicia Margaretta Tyrwhitt, 1870, 24 ; iffue, ib. ; prefent reprefentative of the exift- mg line of the Fortefcues, ib. (Francis), of Alvejlon, grandfon of John Fortef- cue, of Cookhill ; born 1772 ; marr. Maria Down- ing, 1805, 23 ; died 1859 ! t0 °k tne name of Knottesford, ib. Knyvett (Sir Thomas), marr. the dau. of Sir Thomas Parry, 1590, 278; letters to, from Sir John Fort- efcue, 1599,409; and from Thomas Fortefcue, 425. Lambart (Charles), letter to the Ld. Lieut, of Ireland, 1641, 222. Lambourn, co. Effex ; purchafed by Ld. Fortefcue, of Credan, 143. Lane (Sir George), letter to, from Sir Thomas Fort- efcue, 201 . Langley (Robert), marr. widow of Sir John Fortefcue, of Punfborne, 235. Le Fort (Sir Adam), fought at Haftings, 2 ; feated at Wimftone, 3, 448. (Sir Richard), anceftor of the Fortefcue family, 2 ; notice of, 448 ; fought at Haftings ; took the name of Fort-Efcu, ib. Lee Grange, co. Bucks. ; manor of, poftefled by Dormer, 2nd Baron Fortefcue, of Credan, 142. Lenthall (Elizabeth), wife to Sir Sandys Fortefcue, 42. Lewkenor (Richard), Examination of Anthony Fort- efcue by, 1585, 492. Loggin (Elizabeth), wife to Sir Charles Fortefcue, of Bofworth, 419. Lok (Henry), fonnet by, in honour of Sir John Fort- efcue, 347. London, Tower of; Sir Edmund Fortefcue imprifoned at, 33 ; infcriptions upon the walls, 428. Longford, Earl of; v. Pakenham. Lord (Rev. — ), rector of Drayton ; notice of Salden houfe by, 1 7 58, 422. Lorraine, Duke of ; v. Charles, D. of Lorraine. Louis XI. ; letter to, from Henry VI., 78 ; his recep- tion of Q. Margaret, 82. Louth, Co.; eftates inherited by Vifcl. Clermont, 1833, 208, 222. Lowndes (Selby), prefent poffeftor of the Salden eftates, 423. " Loyal Martyrology " (The), notice of Sir Nicholas Fortefcue in, 21. Lyfons (Rev. D.), correfpondence with Earl Fortefcue, 1821, 136, 137. Lyttleton (Sir George), aftds.frjl Lord Lyttleton; marr. Lucy, 3rd dau. of Hugh Fortefcue of Filleigh, 1742, 132; epitaph and monody by, 133- v. Fortefcue (Lucy). Madrid ; defcription of a portrait of Sir Adr. Fortefcue at, 273. Magny (L. de), account by, of the Fortefcues of Normandy, 448-452. Malta, Ijland of; defcription of a portrait of Sir Adr. Fortefcue at, 273 ; account of Nicholas Fortefcue, Knight of, 19, 485. Manners (Grace), wife to Sir Francis Fortefcue, of Salden, 418. Margaret, of Anjou, wife of Henry VI. ; letter to, from Ld. Hungerford, 1461, 65; inftruclions to the E. of Ormond, 73- Markham (Sir John), created Chief Juftice, 1461. 61. General Index. " Martinus Scriblerus," contribution to, by the Rt. Hon. William Fortefcue, 162, 166. Marwood (Sarah), 2nd wife to Colonel Inglett-Fort- efcue, 1818, 168. Maurice, Count Palatine of the Rhine ; letter to Sir Edm. Fortefcue, 35. Meade-Hobfon (Martha Angel), wife to Colonel Fort- efcue, 1809, 207. " Meaux " (Sir John of), John Fortefcue of Norreis, fo ftyled, 44. Middlefex ; Fortefcue eftates in, 334, 425. MifTal ; defcription of one belonging to Sir Adr. Fort- efcue, 266. Modbury, co. Devon ; account of the taking of, 30, 31 ; burial-place of the Fortefcues, 8. Montgomery eftates ; inherited by Alice Spicer, 235- Montgomery (Alice), wife to Sir John, fon of Sir Richard Fortefcue, 248. (Sir Thomas), K. G. ; his EflTex eftates de- fcended to the Fortefcues of Punfborne, 248. Monuments of the Fortefcues, notices of ; at Ailing- ton, 152, 485 ; andMurfley, 376 ; to Adrian, 418 ; Lady Anne, 257, 279 ; Cecily, 376 ; Edmund, 486 ; George, 168 ; Sir Faithful, 198 ; Sir Francis, 377, 418; Henry, 250 ; Hugh and Elizabeth, 130 ; John (Fallapit), 27 ; John (Chancellor), 91, 94; John and Henry, 150, 151 ; John (at Hat- field), 246; Richard, 129 ; William, 162; William Henry, E. of Clermont, 213. Moor Hall, co. Effex; fale of the manor, 1592, 250; belonged to Henry Fortefcue, 249. Moore (Hon. Anne), wife to Sir Faithful Fortefcue, 170. Moreton (Joan), wife to Richard Fortefcue, 129. Mottoes, or Posies; 2, 4, 28, 256, 257, 450, 476. Mulcafter (Robert), tranflator of the " De Raudibus Legum Angliae," 488. Murray (Frances), dau. of Gen. Murray; wife to William Henry Fortefcue, E. Clermont, 1752, 213; anecdotes of, 216-218. Murfley, co. Bucks. ; notice of, 368 ; Fortefcue monuments at, 374-378. Mymmefhall manor, co. Herts. ; poffeffed by Sir John Fortefcue, 1455, 235. Napoleon I. ; converfation with Ld. Ebrington, 1814, 138. Neville (Sophia), wife to Canon Fortefcue, 1842, 137- Newbattle (William John, Lord), aftds. Earl of Ancrum ; marr. Elizabeth, only dau. of Chichefter Fortefcue, of Dromifkin, 1 763, 206. Newport (Urfula), wife to William Fortefcue, c. 1592, 17. Newry, co. Armagh ; ship-canal at, 219. Nicholfon (Mary), 2nd wife to Thomas Fortefcue, 1776, 207. Norfolk, county of; Fortefcue lands in, 54, 244. Norlegh (Joan), marr. to George Fortefcue, "of Combe," 129. Norleigh (Mary), wife to Roger Fortefcue, 1 50. Normandy ; Fortefcues of, 448-48 1. Norreis, or Norris, co. Devon ; defcent of the eftate, 44 ; notice of, 486 ; v. Fortefcues of Norreis. Norreis (Joan or Eleanor), wife to Sir John " of Meaux," 44 ; iffue, ib. ; her property paffed to Henry, Ld. Ch. Juftice of Ireland, ib. Norris (John), marr. to Mary Fortefcue, 279. Northamptonfhire ; Fortefcue eftates in, 242. Northcote (Sufannah), 2nd wife to Col. Robert Fort- efcue, 131. Norton-Conyers, co. York ; portrait of Elizabeth Fortefcue at, 199. Norwich, co. Norf. ; account of tumults at, 5&- Nun-Hays, in Cookhill ; grant of, 16. Ogilvy (Gabriel), relation by, of the Fortefcues of Normandy, 453-456. Old Port, co. Devon ; the manfion Mill (1869) exifting, 4, 5. "On Abfolute and Limited Monarchy," notices of, 141, 263. Ormond, Earl of; v. Butler (James). Ofber : one of the chief families at S. Marie du Mont, 1380, 473. Ofber (Guillaume),/ezgtt. de Coutourp Teffon; marr. Colliaux, dau. of Jehan Fortefcu, 468. Over-Aller ; affignment of lands in, 6. Over-Arley, co. Wore. ; burial-place of Lucy Lyttle- ton, 133. Overton ( — ), wife to Anthony Fortefcue, the " Re- fident," 429. Oxford, Earl of; v. Harley. Oxfordshire ; Fortefcue eftates in, 209, 242, 255, 313, 314, 364, 368, 369, 417- Pakenham (Hon. Mary), dau. to the Earl of Long- ford; 1 ft wife to Thomas Fortefcue, 1770, 207. Paris ; Evidences of the Fortefcues, in the Imperial Library at, 456, 479. General Index. Parkinfon-Ruxton (Mr.), left his eftates to Ld. Car- lingford, 1862, 209. Parliament : members of the Fortefcue family who have ferved, 1421-1701, 498. Parry, or Ap Harry (Sir Thomas), marr. Anne> widow of Sir Adrian Fortefcue, 278. Pafton (Sir William), letter to, from Sir James Gref- ham, 1443, SS. Peard (Matilda), wife to William Fortefcue, of Pen- warne, 132; ob. 1847, mural tablet, 489. Penwarne, co. Cornw. ; Fortefcues of, 132, 489. Philip's-Norton, co. Som,; grant of lands in, to Sir John Fortefcue, 1441, 53 ; fold to Mr. Trip, 1725, 53, 95- Pigott (Valentine), marr. Eleanor, dau. of Chancellor Fortefcue, 1585, 380. Pitt (Thomas), 2nd Lord Camelford ; succeffion to his eftates, 1 37. (Sir William), letter to, 19. Poe (Edward), fervant to Anthony Fortefcue ; exami- nation, 491. Pole (Arthur andEdmond), plot againftQ. Elizabeth, 427 j imprifoned in the Tower, 428; infcriptions by, upon the walls, 1568, ib. (Katharine), wife to Sir Anthony Fortefcue, 1558, 426. (Sir William), notice of his " Great Volume of Charters," 3. Pomeroy (Sir Richard), marr. Elizabeth, widow of Martin Fortefcue, 1 28. Pope (Alexander), correfpondence with the Rt. Hon. William Fortefcue, 153-159, 163, 164. Porter (Anne), lft wife to John Fortefcue, of Buck.- Filleigh, 150. Portraits (Fortefcue), notices of; at Knollfhill, 143; of Sir Adrian, 273 ; Sir Edmund, 41 ; Elizabeth, 199 ; Sir John (Chancellor), 94 ; Sir John (Falla- pit), 28 ; Sir John (Salden), 371, 415. Pofies v. Mottoes. Pouppeville, in Normandy ; family of Fortefcu at, 473- Pozzo ( — ), his account of the proceedings of the Knights of Malta, 21. Pratt (Grace), lft wife to Ld. Fortefcue, of Credan, 142. Prefton, co. Lane; Sir Nicholas Fortefcue killed there, 1644, 21. Prefton, v. Prutefton. Prettyjohn (W. L.), poftefled Wimftone in 1822, 8. Prideaux (Sir John), grant to, 5. (Sarah), wife to John Fortefcue, of Fallapit, 29. Prideaux (Thomazin), wife to John Fortefcue, of Buck.-Filleigh, 1 50. " Proofs of Nobility " of the Fortefcue family, in poffeffion of J. J. Watts, Efq., 22, 172 ; rank loft by Anthoine and Jean Fortefcue, 1625, 470 ; re- covered, 1645, ib. ; exhibited, 1634, 469. Prutefton or Prefton, co. Devon ; Fortefcues of, 9 ; Arms borne by, 475- Prutefton (Joan de), wife to John Fortefcue, 7 ; ac- count of her lands, ib. Puckering (Sir John), letters to, from Sir John Fort- efcue, 1593, 407- Pulteney or Poulteney (Dorothey), notice of, 1603, 367. (Sir John), marr. Margery, dau. of Sir John Fortefcue, of Salden, 1602, 325, 380. Punfborne, co. Herts. ; belonged to Sir Richard Fort- efcue, 1435, 234 ; alienated, and granted to Sir Hen. Cock, 250. v. Fortefcues of Punfborne. Pyrton, co. Dors. ; burial-place of Lady Anne Fort- efcue, 1518, 257. Rabato, /. of Malta ; portrait of Sir Adr. Fortefcue at, 273. Raleigh (Sir Walter), Warrants referring to, 1597, 408. Ravenfdale, near Nenry, co. Louth ; feat of Thomas Fortefcue, 1715, 212 ; defcribed by Arthur Young, ib. ; Fortefcues of, a branch founded by W illiam Fortefcue, of Filleigh, 128, 169. v. Fortefcues of Ravenfdale. Rede or Read (Anne), 2nd wife to Sir Adr. Fortefcue, 1530, 263; in favour with Q. Mary, 278 ; manors granted to, 16. ; marr. 2ndly, to Sir Thomas Ap Harry, ib.; died 1585 ; monument at Welford, 279. " Reliquiae Rodleianac ;" abftracls of letters in, 373. Rerefby (Mary), 2nd wife to Sir Edw. Fortefcue, 420. Reynoldftown, called "Clermont Park," 2 12, 2 16 note. Rhine, Counts Palatine of the ; v. Maurice. Rings ; bequeft of, by Richard Fortefcue, of Spridle- ftone, 12 ; with pofies, 28. Rivers (J. A.), verfes addreflcd to, 438. Robins (Gertrude), 2nd wife to Rev. Knottcsford- Fortefcue, 1 87 1 , 23. Rolle (Margaret), Countefi of Orford \ inherited the barony of Clinton, 136. (Mary), wife to Hugh Fortefcue, 161 2, 130. Rolls Chapel (the), London ; monument to the Rt. Hon. William Fortefcue at, 162. Rouen, in Normandy ; defpatch from the Authorities at, to Louis XI., respecting Chanc. Fortefcue, 76. + + General Index. Rufhworth (John), letter to Richard Lane, Efq., re- fpecting Sir Faithful Fortefcue, 1 9 1 . Ryder (Lady Louifa Elizabeth), wife to George Matth. Fortefcue, 1833, 137; ifTue, ib. (Lady Sufan), lft wife to Hugh, 2nd Earl Fort- efcue, 1817, 138. Ryme, co. Dors. ; notice of, 5, 6. Sackville (Richard and Margery), fuit againft Sir Henry Fortefcue, 46. (Thomas), Baron Buckburjl ; letter to, from Sir John Fortefcue, 1602, 399. St. Alban's ; narrative of the battle, 255. St. Andrew's, Holborn, London; bequeft to the poor of, 1578, 12. St. John of Jerufalem, Knights of; notices of, 3, 20. St. Leger, Lord Deputy ; letter to the Privy Council, 1545, 11- St. Lo, in Normandy ; Fortefcues of, 451. St. Marie du Mont, in Normandy ; Fortefcues of, 471. St. Maur (Agnes), wife to Henry Fortefcue, of Pru- tefton, 10. St. Michael's Mount, co. Cornwall ; befieged by Sir John Fortefcue, 1472, 236. Salcombe Caftle (Fort Charles), co. Devon; Order to rebuild, 35 ; account of provifions at, 36 ; names of the garrifon, 37 ; furrendered to Colonel Weldon, 39, 40. Salden, co. Bucks ; feud refpecting hunting at, 314; eftates now held by Mr. Selby Lowndes, 423. v. Fortefcues of Salden. Salden Houfe ; defcription of, 326, 421; knights made at, 1603, 362 ; vifited by Q. Elizabeth, 356, and Jas. I. 362. Salifbury, Earl of; v. Cecil (Robert). Salvin (Thomas), letter to the Earl of Ormond, 1 83. Sanders (Ann), lft wife to Colonel Inglett-Fortefcue, 1788, 168. Sandys (Margery), dau. of Henry, 5th Ld. Sandys; wife to Sir Edmund Fortefcue (3rd), 41. Say (Sir William), feud with Sir John Fortefcue, 245- Seals (Fortefcue) ; notices of, 5 note, 6 ; Adam Fort- efcue, 4; Anthony, 431 ; Sir Adrian, 27 1; Sir Faithful, 175; Guillem, 461; Jehan, 457, 459; Sir John (Chancellor), 72; Sir John (Salden), 334 ; Nicholas, 22; Pierre. 463; Richard, 172; from the Clairembault Collection, 457,476; Seal show- ing the intermarriage with the Norman branch, 172, 475- Seymour, (Colonel, — ) Gov. of Dartmouth ; letter to, from Sir Edmund Fortefcue, 1644, 33. Shapleigh (Joan), wife to John Fortefcue, of Spridle- ftone, 12. Shepham, or Shipham, co. Devon ; notice of, 487. Shillingford (John), Mayor of Exeter ; notice by, of Chancellor Fortefcue, 1447, 58. Shirewood (Lettice), wife of Robert Corbet, remarr. — Talboys, 54. Shrewfbury, Earl of ; v. Talbot (George). Shropfhire ; Fortefcue lands in, 425. Skinner (Katharine), wife to Sir Nicholas Fortefcue, Groom-Porter to Hen. VIII., 16. Slingfby (Elizabeth), wife of Chichefter, fon of Sir Faithful Fortefcue, 199; remarr. to Vifct. Pur- beck, ib. Smyth (Alice), 2nd wife to Sir John Fortefcue, of Salden, 1572, 325. Somerfetfhire ; Fortefcue eftates in, 6, 7, 10, 53, 95, 128, 131, 242. " Soul's Pilgrimage to Heaven " (The) ; written by George Fortefcue, 436. Southcote (Jane), wife to Sir Edmund Fortefcue (2nd), of Fallapit, 1633, 30. South-Molton, co. Devon ; bequeft to the poor at, 140. Speccot (Honour), wife to John Fortefcue, of Fallapit, 27 ; brafs at Allington, 486. Spelman (Sir Henry), notice by, of Chanc. Fortefcue, 64. Spencer (Robert), ijl Baron Spencer, of Warm- leighton ; letter to, from Sir John Fortefcue, of Salden, 1604, 367. Spice (Alice), wife to Sir John Fortefcue, the elder, of Punfborne, 235, 248. (Philippa), ward to Sir John Fortefcue, 1488, 243 ; wife to Sir John Fortefcue, " of Herts.," 235, 248 ; remarr. to Sir Francis Bryan, 249. Spooner (Frances Anne), lft wife to Rev. Knottesford- Fortefcue, 1838, 23. (John), marr. Mary, only dau. of William Fortefcue, 1733, 34, 1&3- Spridleftone, co. Devon ; inherited by John Fortefcue, 3rd fon of John, 7 ; pofTefTed by Richard Inglett, Efq., 14, 95 ; fold by his fon to Mr. Lane, ib. v. Fortefcues of Spridleftone. Stafford (Elizabeth), lft wife to Henry Fortefcue, of Falkborne, 249. Standards ufed by John and Adrian Fortefcue,256, 257. Stanley (Frances), wife of John, eld. fon of Sir Fras. Fortefcue, 419. Stapleford-Abbots, co. Effex ; burial-place of the General Index. Fortefcues, 1748, 142, 143; tablet at, to the memory of Dormer Fortefcue- Aland, 144. Stapleton (Elizabeth), widow of Sir W. Calthorpe ; 2nd wife to Sir John Fortefcue, of Punfborne, 244 ; error refpecting her marriage, 53 » remarr. to Adm. Howard, 246. " Stemmata Fortefcuana," a MS. belonging to Earl Fortefcue, 85. Stephenftown, co. Louth ; Fortefcues of, 212. Stonor, co. Oxon ; the manor defcribed, 255. Stonor, Family of; alliance with the Fortefcues, 246, 255- Stonor (Anne), lft wife to Sir Adr. Fortefcue, 255 ; died 1518, 257 ; bur. in Pyrton ch., ib. ; removed to Brightwell-Baldwin, 258 ; account of her funeral, ib. ; note of her death, 266 ; funeral expenfes, 280. (Mary), 2nd wife to Sir John Fortefcue, 2nd Bart., 420. (Sir Walter), difpute with Sir Adrian Fortefcue, 258. Strafford, Earl of; v. Wentworth. Strechleigh, co. Devon ; notice of, 5. Strechleigh (Alice), wife to William Fortefcue, of Wimftone, 4. Strobridgc (Arthur), poffeffed Wimftone in 1635, 8. Strode (Cicely), wife to Thomas Fortefcue, 7. Strongman (Mary), dau. to Robert Chane, wife to Dudley Fortefcue, 1581, 249. Swanbourne, co. Bucks. ; defcription of the manor- houfe, 368. Swyncombe, co. Oxon ; acquired by Sir John Fort- efcue, 314. Symonds (Eleanor), 2nd wife to Sir Faithful Fortef- cue, 198. Talbot (Barbara), wife to Francis Fortefcue-Turville, 419. (George), gth E. of Shrcwfbury ; letter to, from Sir John Fortefcue, of Salden, 1589, 381. (John), 10th E. of Shrewfbury ; marr. Mary, dau. of Sir Francis Fortefcue, of Salden, 419. Tamerton, co. Devon ; grant of lands at, 5. Taviftock, co. Devon ; tablet in the church to George Fortefcue, 1700, 168. Taylor (Harriet Maria), wife to William Blundell Fortefcue, 1837, 43. Teddington, co. Warw. inherited by Francis Fortef- cue, 23. Tew (Elizabeth), wife to Gerald Fortefcue, 206. Throgmorton (Sir Robert), marr. to Dorothy Fortef- cue, dau. of Sir Francis, 419. Thynne (Sir John), letter to, from Sir John Fortef- cue, 1603, 411. Tickford Park, co. Bucks. ; purchafed by Sir John Fortefcue, of Salden, 1592, 379; refold by his widow, 1621, 380. Tipping (Elizabeth), wife to Faithful Fortefcue, of Corderry, 1727, 212. Tradefcant (John), matrix of Fortefcue feal in his collections, 172 note. Trip (Edward), purchafed Philip's Norton, 95. Troffe (Emlyn), wife to William Fortefcue, of Buck. - Filleigh, 151. Trumpington Manor, co. Camb.; granted to Sir John Fortefcue, 242, 249. Turville (William), marr. Frances, dau. of Charles Fortefcue, 4 19. v. Fortefcue-Turville. Tyrwhitt (Alicia Margaretta), wife to Capt. E. F. Knottesford-Fortefcue, 1870, 24. Unton (Sir Henry), letter to, from Sir John Fortef- cue, of Salden, 382. Ufhaw College, Durham; extract from a MS. at, 433- Valeput, t'. Fallapit. Valetta, /. of Malta ; portraits of Adrian Fortefcue at, 273. Vereiken ( — ), Ambaffador from the States-General ; account of his reception in London, 353. Vire, in Normandy ; branch of the Fortefcues at, 451- Vitale (Fra Vidal), tcftimony refpecling a portrait of Sir Adrian Fortefcue, 274, 276. Vivian (Florence), wife to John Fortefcue, of Spridle- ftone, 12. Waldcgrave (Frances, Countefl), dau. of John Bra- ham, Efq., widow of Earl Waldegrave ; wife to Chichcfter Fortefcue, Lord Carlingford, 1863 ; died 1879, 209. Waldword (Ellen), wife to Anthony Fortefcue, 48. Walpole, Lady; related to the Fortefcues, 162. (Horace), reference by, to the houfehold of the Rt. Hon. William Fortefcue, 162 ; letter to Lady Offory, 216 ; mention by, of Lord and Lady Cler- mont, 218; and of the Rt. Hon. James Fortefcue, 219. Walfh (Catharine), wife to William Fortefcue, 7. Wardrobe ; defcription of the " King's Great Ward- robe," 312. General Index. Warwickfhire ; Fortefcue eftates in, 17, 20, 24. Watts (J. J.), EJq.; pofleflbr of the "Proofs of No- bility" of Sir Nicholas Fortefcue, 22. Wayte (William), notice of Chanc. Fortefcue in a letter to him [1450-54], 59. Weare (Joan or Elizabeth), wife to Richard Denzill, 126. (William), marr. Elizabeth de Filleigh, 126 ; iflue, ib. Weare-Giffard, co. Devon ; defcent of the manor, 94, 126; defcription of, 127 ; Fortefcue monuments at, 130. Webb (Anne), wife to William Fortefcue, of Bofworth, 419. Weldon (Colonel Ralph), took Salcombe Caftle, 1646, 39- Welford, co. Berks. ; monument to Lady Ann Fort- efcue at, 279 ; burial-place of Thomas Fortefcue, 425. Wellefley (Hon. Elizabeth), wife to Chichefter Fortefcue, of Dromifkin, 1 743, 203 ; mentioned in Mary Granville's letters, 1752, ib. Wells (Edmund), inherited Fortefcue property at Fallapit, 1768,42; took the name of Fortefcue, ib. Wentworth (Thomas), Earl of Strafford ; appointed Ld. Deputy of Ireland, 1 79 ; relation of his " paf- fages, " by Sir Faithful Fortefcue, ib. Wefley, or Wellefley (Hon. Arthur), aflds. Duke of Wellington; letters to Admiral Fortefcue, 204,205. Weftcote (T.), his notice of Wimftone, 4 ; and of Sir John " of Meaux," 45 ; remarks on the Fort- efcue motto, 477- Wheatley, co. Wore. ; eftates fold by John Fort- efcue, 23. v. Fortefcues of Wheatley. Wheteley (Prudence), wife to Sir Nicholas Fortefcue, 19. Whorwood (Thomas), co-heir to the Salden eftates, 420, 421. Whytingham (Sir Robert), letter to Q. Margaret, 1461, 65. Wight, Ijle of; Fortefcue eftates in, 197. Wilde (Joane), wife to William Fortefcue, of Wheatley, 20. Wills (Fortefcue) ; George, of Lond., 1659, 445; John, of Buck.-Fill., 1603, 229 ; Nicholas, Groom- Porter, 24; Genl. Richard, 1648, 445; Thomas, of Donnington, 1608, 443; Sir Thomas, 1709, 232; William, of Prutefton, 1518 (the earlieft extant), 9; William of Buck.-Fill., 1580, 227. Wiltfhire; Fortefcue eftates in, 60, 128, 131,364. Wimftone or Wymondeftone, co. Devon ; firft feat of the Fortefcues in England, 4 ; manor fold by Edmond (Edward?) Fortefcue, 8 ; account of a vifit to, 487. v. Fortefcues of Wimftone. " Winchefter Houfe ; " John, Peter, and Sir Edmund Fortefcue imprifoned at, 29, 33. Windefor (Alice de), wife to Sir Richard Fortefcue, 234- Windfor Caftle ; infeription upon the wall by Sir Edmund Fortefcue, 33. Windfor (Sir William), letter to, from Sir Faithful Fortefcue, 1627, 175. Wintour (Elizabeth), 3rd wife to Sir John Fortefcue, 2nd Bart., died 1674, 420. Wood, co. Devon; conveyed to the Prefton branch of Fortefcue, 48. v. Fortefcues of Wood. Wood (Colonel Mark), prefent pofleflbr of Knollef- hill, 143- Woodleigh, co. Devon; inferiptions in the church, 484. Woolridge (Mary), wife to Gilbert Fortefcue, 418. Worcefterfhire ; Fortefcue eftates in, 15, 16, 20, 91. Wraxall (Sir Nathaniel), notice of Lord and Lady Clermont in his "Memoirs," 214-218. Wyfe (Maria), wife to Edmund Fortefcue, of Fallapit, died 1722, 42. Wytheley, co. Wore. ; manor bequeathed by Nicho- las Fortefcue, 15. v. Wheatley. Yeo (Mary), wife to Samuel Fortefcue, "of Cleeve," 131- Young (Arthur), Ravenfdale defcribed by him, 212. 4 THE END. CHISWICK PRESS : — C. WHITTINGHAM AND CO. TOOK.S COURT, CHANCERY LANE. GETTY CENTER LIBRARY 3 3125 00829 8776